Re: [RFC/RFA] Per-objfile data mechanism

[Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>]

   From: David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>
   Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:48:31 -0700

   On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:17:29 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz
   <drow@mvista.com> said:

   > The concept is nice, but I share David's concern.

   I was also going to write, based on a cursory misreading of Mark's
   patch, that it simplified memory management in some circumstances, but
   now that I look at it more closely, I think I just misread the patch.
   (I may still be misreading the patch; my head is spinning with other
   things.)  Would it be possible/beneficial to modify the mechanism to
   provide an optional per-datum cleanup function as well?

I quite deliberately left per-datum initializers and destructors out
to encourage the use of the per-objfile obstacks.  But they can always
be added if they're needed.

So what's the final verdict.  Should my patch go in, or do people have
concrete ideas about necessary improvements or alternative
implementations?

Mark