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

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 09:03:02PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>    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?

As far as I'm concerned, it should go in.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer