[llvm-commits] Garbage collection patch series

[Gordon Henriksen]

Of course. I didn't expect these changes to hit SVN until early October.

On 2007-09-12, at 14:48, Chris Lattner wrote:

> Hi Gordon,
>
> FYI, I haven't forgotten about this patch set.  However, on the verge
> of LLVM 2.1, I think it's best to wait until the beginning of the
> next release cycle.  I will try to dive into these in the next week
> or two.
>
> -Chris
>
> On Sep 3, 2007, at 11:18 PM, Gordon Henriksen wrote:
>
>> As followups to this post, I will post a series of six patches
>> which significantly improve LLVM's garbage collection support.
>> These patches are not all fully independent, but I have broken them
>> up into more digestible units for review.
>>
>> • gc-1-registry.patch (+288 lines)
>> My previous Registry.h header, as well as Collectors.h, which is
>> the registry for dynamically-loaded garbage collectors.
>>
>> • gc-2-metadata.patch (+303 lines)
>> CollectorMetadata is the data structure populated by back-ends
>> during code-generation.
>>
>> • gc-3-collector.patch (+401 lines)
>> Collector is the base class for garbage collector code generators.
>> It provides its subclasses with both static configuration and
>> callbacks through which they can exert its will upon all relevant
>> stages of code generation.
>>
>> • gc-4-integration.patch (+113, -17 lines)
>> In this patch, Collector winds its tendrils throughout the
>> compiler. Overhead should be minimal when disabled.
>>
>> • gc-5-shadowstack.patch (+59, -406 lines)
>> With this patch, the LowerGC transformation is adapted to become
>> the ShadowStackCollector.
>>
>> • gc-6-ocaml.patch (+190 lines)
>> Finally, the new OcamlCollector emits the Ocaml frametable data
>> structure and related symbols.
>>
>> Hopefully I can get feedback so that this can be rolled into 2.2
>> early in the development cycle.
>>
>> — Gordon
>>
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