Dear All (and especially those implied in the GCC internal garbage collector).
I read (and contributed a bit to) http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Memory_management and also read http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Type-Information.html However, there is still a question which puzzles me a lot? Why gengtype is not a sort of filter or generator (like yacc is) taking a (list of) files on input and producing a file on output? More precisely, why gengtype does not take the name of files to be parsed for GTY(()) thru its program argument (ie argc,argv of its main - they are explicitly marked as unused in $GCCTOP/gcc/gengtype.c) I would believe it should make things simpler (in a lot of places) but I cannot understand why it is not so? Why are the set of files to be parsed for GTY()) so hard-coded in gengtype? BTW, it is strange that gengtype* files do not mention any author or contributor (with an email to contact them)? Regards. -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basile<at>starynkevitch<dot>net mobile: +33 6 8501 2359 8, rue de la Faïencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France *** opinions {are only mines, sont seulement les miennes} ***
