On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote: > Before we introduced garbage collection, gcc used pools (well, obstacks),
When I started in 1997, obstack was still there and it isn't that long ago, so things do move fast -- for a large software like GCC. > but there were severe > problems because > pointers to one pool would be assigned to a pointer to a different > pool and then become > dangling pointers when the first pool was deleted. C++ will let us > avoid that problem. Exactly.
