Re: gc and call/cc design space notes (DRAFT)

[Miroslav Silovic]

Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:

>       * write a pre-processor that inserts code sufficient to
>         implement conservative GC.
> 
>         advantages: Portable and compiler independent.
> 
>         disadvantages: Similar in complexity to writing a compiler
>                        front end.  Can interact oddly with compiler
>                        error messages (both line numbers and errors
>                        reported in the generated code).  Slows down
>                        compilation.
> 
>         possible disadvantages: might impose too much cost at run-time
> 
>         tactical notes: the C parser and CPP in GCC can be factored
>                       out of GCC without huge amounts of work.

Special documentation difficulty: ban alloca.

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