NightStrike wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Ian Lance Taylor<i...@google.com> wrote: >> Richard Guenther <richard.guent...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> All that above said - do you expect us to carry both vec.h (for VEC in >>> GC memory) and std::vector (for VECs in heap memory) (and vec.h >>> for the alloca trick ...)? Or do you think we should try to make the GTY >>> machinery C++ aware and annotate the standard library (ick...)? >> I expect us to write a GC allocator, and use that with std::vector. >> This will require more hooks into the GC code, but I think it is doable. > > I'm curious about this. I thought c++ wasn't a garbage collected > language on purpose. Why does GCC have one? What purpose does it > serve? I'm not suggesting otherwise, but just trying to learn more > about the way things are done.
This is for gcc's internal use, not for the users of gcc. We have to manage memory inside gcc somehow, so we use a garbage collector. Andrew.
