On 18/11/2012, at 7:50 AM, Alexander Ivchenko wrote:
> You are right, we are talking about the same things. The only open
> question I see is regarding:
>
> In other cases we can safely assume
> that the executable will be created and
> in such case it would be a good idea to use -fPI
I agree with the analysis of Uday and Basile. In my view, competition
from Clang and LLVM is probably the best thing that could've happened
to a compiler that was in danger of becoming fat, lazy and complacent.
Simplifying the code base for new contributors and increased
maintainability are the ma
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:25:55AM -0500, Diego Novillo wrote:
> I agree with the analysis of Uday and Basile. [...]
>
> However, let's discuss this topic in some other thread, please. I'd
> like to take this thread back to the original topic: what do we do
> with GC and PCH?
I really think tha
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Basile Starynkevitch
wrote:
> I really think that GCC need some form of garbage collector.
> If it is Ggc+gengtype (to be improved), or Boehm GC, or even
> some other GC (for instance both
> http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/qishintro.html and
> http://gcc.gnu.org/vi
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 08:06:08AM -1000, NightStrike wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Basile Starynkevitch
> wrote:
> > I really think that GCC need some form of garbage collector.
[...]
>
> What's wrong with std::shared_ptr?
How does it deal with complex circular references that every
On 18 November 2012 18:03, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
> Regarding PCH [pre-compiled header], I think that it is related to PPH
> [pre-processed headers]
>
> I don't understand yet if PPH is abandoned, or just post-poned. I was
> believing it was a very mature experimental branch.
See http://gcc.g
On 18 November 2012 18:25, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 08:06:08AM -1000, NightStrike wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Basile Starynkevitch
>> wrote:
>> > I really think that GCC need some form of garbage collector.
> [...]
>>
>> What's wrong with std::shared_ptr
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