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From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
To: Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au>
Cc: Peter Gerwinski <peter@gerwinski.de>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to use the garbage collector?
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 01:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010102010647.A27917@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010102185745.B2460@hg.cs.mu.oz.au>

On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 06:57:45PM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> 1. Delete obstack code.
> 2. Register your roots.
> 3. Mark your types.

Yep.

> I think you probably also need to register any local variables which
> contain pointers to GC'd memory, and which are not linked to from
> other memory that will be traced, and which are live when ggc_collect
> () is called.

See the use of ggc_push_context and ggc_pop_context in e.g.
cp/semantics.c for an alternative to marking local variables.


r~

  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-02  1:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-01 18:51 Peter Gerwinski
2001-01-01 23:58 ` Fergus Henderson
2001-01-02  1:06   ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2001-01-02 10:21 ` Mark Mitchell

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