Why Does "java_global_trees" Exist?

Tue Jun 15 08:55:00 GMT 2004

On 2004年6月14日 16:45:51 -0400, Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay@redhat.com> wrote:
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> Yeah, this is a leftover from earlier incarnations of GCC's garbage
> collector. These days we can use GTY markers to easily register roots,
> so the java_global_trees stuff could be removed. I've found it annoying
> in the past too, so I vote to get rid of it.

Actually *everyone* (but Ada/Fortran) seems to have "global_trees"
structures - I've found "global_trees", "c_global_trees",
"cp_global_trees" and "objc_global_trees", apart from
"java_global_trees".
Maybe it's better this way to reduce the roots set 
exposed to the GCC garbage collector.
~shrug~
Ranjit.