Finalization and CNI

Thu Jun 12 15:56:00 GMT 2003

>>>>> "Hans" == Boehm, Hans <hans_boehm@hp.com> writes:

Hans> Just to clarify: The garbage collector tries NOT to scan the
Hans> C/C++ new/malloc heap.
Andrew and I talked about some CNI changes the other day. We'd like
to do 3 things:
* Finish Bryce's binary compatibility work. I'm not sure how the CNI
 part of this would work.
* Move from using plain pointers to smart pointers, so we can get
 proper null pointer checking on all platforms
* Tighten the rules on where pointers to GCd objects are allowed to
 be kept (to let us reduce the root set)
I don't know when these things will happen. But the basic idea is
not to promise any sort of binary compatibility until all of them are
done -- each of them represents an ABI change.
Tom