Re: backend question

"Fergus Henderson" <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
24 Nov 2002 01:23:02 -0500

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From: "Fergus Henderson" <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 24 Nov 2002 01:23:02 -0500
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne
References: 02-11-063 02-11-078 02-11-099 02-11-112
Keywords: C, design
Posted-Date: 24 Nov 2002 01:23:02 EST

"David Chase" <chase@world.std.com> writes:


>Standard C doesn't give you enough control to write a precise garbage
>collector (one that can see all the pointers, and exactly all the
>pointers),


It does (albeit with a potentially significant performance cost).
See my recent paper at ISMM'02 [1].


>Standard C also gives you less than adequate control of floating point.


C99 offers some improvements in this area.




References:


[1] Fergus Henderson,
        "Accurate garbage collection in an uncooperative environment".
        Proceedings of the 2002 International Symposium on Memory Management,
        Berlin, Germany, June 2002, pages 150-156.
<http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/mercury/information/papers.html#high_level_gc>


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