[LLVMdev] dynamic typing system

[Joachim Durchholz]

Am 16.08.2010 22:26, schrieb Alec Benzer:
> The other option, I guess, would be stack allocations with alloca
> instructions? I don't need to worry about the sizes of types or about
> calling free, but now my objects can't live on past the scope of a function,
> which may complicate things.

That's putting it mildly.
If locally created objects can outlive the stack frame, you need a heap. 
(Unless your language is specifically geared towards region analysis, 
but your post doesn't sound as if that's the part of the learning curve 
you're on.)
Some language infrastructures actually allocated everything on the heap. 
Stack-based allocation would be added as an optimization then. (This 
might be reasonable, or the worst idea ever, depending on specifics of 
the language.)

Regards,
Jo