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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/27/2014 2:33 PM, Rui Ueyama wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(I
accidentally hit "reply" instead of "reply all", so sending it
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I'll
add "alias" references if no objections from other reviewers.
I'll probably add ELF symbol aliasing support with it, so hold
on.</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We
cannot remove kindLayoutBefore because doing it would break
dead stripping pass. We still need it for GC as GC needs
backward references.</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">To
remove kindLayoutBefore, we have to modify dead striping pass
so that it creates back references internally from forward
references and use it while collecting dead objects. I think
I'm going to make such change, but it's going a bit large.</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Submitting
this change first and then doing the next step in a following
patch would be better than merging the two together.
Incremental change is easier to bisect in case it would breaks
omething, and it's easy to understand for reviewers, too.</div>
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Do we have a flag to garbage collect atoms with lld in the current
implementation ? If not removing kindLayoutBefore wouldnot affect
anything right ?<br>
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Shankar Easwaran<br>
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