[cfe-dev] RFC: Removing Objective-C Garbage Collection from Clang

Duncan P. N. Exon Smith via cfe-dev cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
Mon Dec 5 10:33:40 PST 2016


Today is Monday, but I'm happy to wait a little longer (not going to do it today in any case).  Would you like me to hold off until next week?

> On 2016-Dec-02, at 17:42, Philip Reames <listmail at philipreames.com> wrote:
> 
> I'd like to take a look to see if any of the code is worth salvaging.  Can you give me till Monday?  If I haven't gotten to it by then, I can just go through the cleanup patch afterwards.
> 
> Philip
> 
> On 11/29/2016 02:54 PM, Duncan P. N. Exon Smith via cfe-dev wrote:
>> It has been over three years since Apple Clang has supported -fobjc-gc (Objective-C garbage collection, which predates before -fobjc-arc).  The code is still there in Clang, but my understanding is that no one is using it.
>> 
>> I'd like to clean things up and delete the code.
>> 
>> Please let me know if there are any objections!  Otherwise I'm planning to start on this sometime next week.
>> _______________________________________________
>> cfe-dev mailing list
>> cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
>> http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev
> 
> 




More information about the cfe-dev mailing list