Re: Phase 1 of gcc-in-cxx now complete

[Gabriel Dos Reis <dosreis@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:39 AM, NightStrike<nightstrike@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Ian Lance Taylor<iant@google.com> wrote:
>> Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> All that above said - do you expect us to carry both vec.h (for VEC in
>>> GC memory) and std::vector (for VECs in heap memory) (and vec.h
>>> for the alloca trick ...)?  Or do you think we should try to make the GTY
>>> machinery C++ aware and annotate the standard library (ick...)?
>>
>> I expect us to write a GC allocator, and use that with std::vector.
>> This will require more hooks into the GC code, but I think it is doable.
>
> I'm curious about this.  I thought c++ wasn't a garbage collected
> language on purpose.

Many people are confused about what the 'purpose' is.

>  Why does GCC have one?  What purpose does it
> serve?  I'm not suggesting otherwise, but just trying to learn more
> about the way things are done.
>

This is usually an ingredient for long, heated, debates :-)

-- Gaby