622815 - Need a way to expose GCMember to inline members

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tamarin Graveyard :: Garbage Collection (mmGC), defect)

Description

[Tommy Reilly]

Missing feature from safegc design.  This comes up with GCRoot and GCObject, current thinking is GCRootSubstructure/GCObjectSubstructure that these inline members inherit from. The name is overly long but I can't think of anything better.

Comment 1

[Lars T Hansen]

We could shorten the names by removing "sub".  For exactgc I went with just GC_STRUCTURE for reason of length.

Comment 2

[Dan Smith]

Retargeting SafeGC work items to "future".

Comment 3

[Tommy Reilly]

Attachment: Introduce GCStructure

DRive by fxing as its kinda related to tracing structures (what I call inline members here).

Comment 4

[Lars T Hansen]

Comment on attachment 516593 [details] [diff] [review]
Introduce GCStructure

Call it GCSubStructure (I'm not sure about the capitalized second S there but it seems better than not capitalizing) and I'm sold, not because I care about SafeGC much but because these kinds of markers may make us significantly more robust when it comes to curtailing the amount of finalization work we're doing.

Comment 5

[Tamarin Bot]

changeset: 6038:94088420bf3e
user:      Tommy Reilly <[e-mail]>
summary:   Bug 622815 - Need a way to expose GCMember to inline (ie non-pointer) members (r=lhansen)

http://hg.mozilla.org/tamarin-redux/rev/94088420bf3e

Comment 6

[Tamarin Bot]

changeset: 6039:ff1940b62c7a
user:      Tommy Reilly <[e-mail]>
summary:   Bug 622815 - typo

http://hg.mozilla.org/tamarin-redux/rev/ff1940b62c7a