On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Basile Starynkevitch <bas...@starynkevitch.net> wrote: > > My strong belief is that a compiler project as gigantic as GCC needs some kind > of garbage collection.
I suspect that is correct, especially given the way the compiler is currently implemented. But I also suspect that we could use C++ reference-counted pointers rather than a mark-and-sweep garbage collector. Ian