[LLVMdev] Accurate garbage collection

[Pedro Ferreira]

As I understand it, LLVM simply gives you support for garbage collectors
that you have to implement yourself and link into the final binary,
similar to what C's malloc does (it's a library call). The issue with
GC's is that they need to be provided info about the stack, thats where
LLVM's support comes in.
As far as I know, the garbage collector is linked into the final binary
along with the language's runtime.

On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 22:30 +0400, lost wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm looking at "Overview of available features" here:
> http://llvm.org/docs/GarbageCollection.html#collector-algos and can't
> understand something.
> First, does table header mean that there are already some GC's
> implemented besides "shadow stack"? E.g. can I just use them?
> Second, does row "JIT", "NO" mean that GC is not compatible with jitting at all?
> 
> Best regards,
> Victor Milovanov.
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