On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 08:56 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Tom de Vries <tjvr...@xs4all.nl> writes:
>
> > What I am really trying to do, is a bootstrap debug build of 4.3.5.
> > However, I ran into bug 31230. I minimized the testcase, did an
> > analysis, created a naive patch to test my hypothesis, tested the
> > patch and put it in the bug report. Now I'm looking for feedback.
> >
> > In the question I asked to this mailing list I tried to abstract away
> >> From the specific case I analyzed, to get a more conceptual
> > discussion about the garbage collector, but maybe that was a mistake,
> > sorry for the confusion.
> >
> > My analysis, what I'm trying to get confirmed, is that the the actual
> > type_hash_marked_p() in gcc is 'such an if_marked property':
> > ...
> > static int type_hash_marked_p (const void *p) {
> > tree type = ((struct type_hash *) p)->type;
> > return ggc_marked_p (type) || TYPE_SYMTAB_POINTER (type);
> > }
>
> Interesting. My first reaction is that this is an invalid use of the
> garbage collector. I think there is really only one valid function
> that can be used as an if_marked function: one which checks
> ggc_marked_p on the structure.
A plugin providing its own GC above GGC, like MELT does, also could use
that feature. So don't remove it, please.
Cheers.
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