Re: Reclaiming dynamic memory if parse fails?

Matthias Blume <blume@hanabi.local>
Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:38:13 -0500

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From: Matthias Blume <blume@hanabi.local>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:38:13 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 07-07-051 07-07-062
Keywords: parse, storage
Posted-Date: 19 Jul 2007 00:42:48 EDT

Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> writes:


> On Friday 13 Jul 2007 15:50, carsonbj@gmail.com wrote:
>> When a parse fails, in the middle of the
>> configuration file, and the tree is partially built, how can I reclaim
>> all of the dynamic memory gracefully?
>
> John replied:
>> [There's no really clean way to do it. ...
>
> Using a C garbage collector is probably the cleanest way to do it,
> eg the Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector:
>
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/


I think the "cleanest" way is to not use C in the first place. There
are plenty of yacc- and lex-equivalents for modern garbage-collected
languages.


Matthias


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