[M3devel] backend issues wrt garbage collection

[Dragiša Durić]

LLVM has a notion of a stacklet. So, stack is - possibly - non contiguous and as such it is not compatible with current GC.  Fixable, but still an issue.

Also, with C/C++ being a planned/developed backend, two issues emerge. One is - are global variables per module kept in contiguous space per module? Another is - what is compiler/backend/ABI/whatever of this final C/C++ compiler step and what it's stack is like? :) Also, are those global variable spaces kept contiguous regardless of optimizations?

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Dragiša Durić
dragisha at m3w.org



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