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   From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
   Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 11:48:18 -0700

   On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 03:41:10PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
   > ... and doing garbage collection on obstacks, instead of on
   > individual objects?
   
   How, pray tell, are you going to do that?
   
Make obstack alloc pages from GC and make the obstack_free
be a NOP.  I even tried this, it works.