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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:52:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: adding destroyable objects into Ggc
From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
Cc: Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
>=A0Before we introduced garbage collection, gcc used pools (well, obstacks=
),

When I started in 1997, obstack was still there and it isn't that long ago,=
 so
things do move fast -- for a large software like GCC.

> but there were severe
> problems because
> pointers to one pool would be assigned to a pointer to a different
> pool and then become
> dangling pointers when the first pool was deleted. =A0C++ will let us
> avoid that problem.

Exactly.