Le Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 12:08:09AM +0100, basile écrivait/wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:06:13PM +0100, I (Basile) wrote in
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-12/msg00158.html
> 
> > 
> > I want to have a GTY() garbage collected structure such that, when it
> > is destroyed, some specific routine is called (this should indeed be
> > possible, since GGC is a mark& sweep garbage collector, which delete
> > individually each dead data).

I forgot to mention that what I am taling about can be viewed as some
restricted form of finalized objects (with the important caveat that I
don't tackle the difficult issue of what happens when the finalizer
change the graph of memory references to GGC objects. I disallow
this).

> 
> Zack Weinberg wrote in http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-12/msg00159.html
> 
> > On the other hand, I sympathize with your goal; I've been idly
> > thinking a little myself about the sensibility of using MPFR
> > throughout, instead of our bespoke REAL_VALUE_TYPE thing.  [I don't
> > know if this is actually a good idea yet.]


I don't understand very well this REAL_VALUE_TYPE thing. Could you
ellaborate, please? I did have a glance into gcc/real.h

Regards.


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