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Re: RFC: introduce scoped cleanups
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:33:41 -0600
- Subject: Re: RFC: introduce scoped cleanups
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Joel> Regardless of the above, I like the idea of performing the cleanups
Joel> on an obstack; fast and yet a little more resilient to programming
Joel> errors. Not sure if that would be something easy to implement or not,
Joel> though.
Tom> It ought to be easy. I will look into it.
I think it is easy to implement. And, I think I've convinced myself
that it is safe. But it seems to me that we could keep a freelist
instead -- this is much more obviously safe, and also, I think,
reasonably fast in most cases. So I think I'm more inclined to take
this approach instead.
Tom