[bitc-dev] Pools in lieu of GC

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

This is the current implementation. We're going to replace this with
an effect-style analysis.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Swaroop Sridhar <swaroop at cs.jhu.edu> wrote:
> Rick R wrote:
>> I would be happy to use BitC a feature limited mode. It would be nice if
>> there were a "strict" compiler option that would warn me if I were to
>> use a construct that required malloc.
>
> There is a compiler option --no-alloc, which precludes dynamic
> allocation. This mode rejects any expression that could cause run-time
> allocation, including closure construction. The analysis is conservative
> in the sense that all expressions that construct closures are rejected,
> regardless of whether the closure escapes or not.
>
> Swaroop.
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