On Monday 04 August 2008 16:36:15 Andrew Whitworth wrote: > I edited PDD09 tonight to try and add some details and some > clarification on points that weren't particularly clear before. I have > a few questions that need answering before I can do more: > > 1) GC_trace_normal and GC_trace_stack_FLAG are defined exactly the > same. However, GC_trace_normal is never used anywhere. Since we > already have a flag that does the same thing, and since we never use > it, should we just remove GC_trace_normal from the PDD?
+1 > 2) What does GC_no_trace_volatile_roots do? It's description is very > short and cryptic: "Trace root set except volatile roots. That is skpe > e.g. registers." Also, this flag is never used in Parrot. If we intend > to use it in the future, we should provide a better description. If > not, we should remove it from the PDD. I don't see a use for it. > 3) PDD09 specifies that the "dod" acronym is deprecated and shouldn't > be used anymore. However, it's still used in a lot of places. If we > don't want to rename a bunch of functions and variables, we should > change the PDD to say that the term is not completely deprecated. Let's rename a bunch of functions and variables (after the next release). -- c
