On 6/28/19 2:48 PM, Giuliano Belinassi wrote: > Hi, > > *** > Question: What are all the possible ways to allocate and deallocate memory > through the Garbage Collector? > *** > > Context: I am parallelizing GCC internals and I am facing problems with the > GCC > Garbage Collector, and therefore I need to make it threadsafe to continue with > the project. > > Currently, I want to do a palliative solution to this, which is locking a > mutex > every time a chunk of memory is allocated or deallocated. For this, I need to > know all the possibilities to allocate and deallocate memory and lock/unlock > the mutex there. > > As far as I have seen, there are the macros XALLOC, XNEW, XNEWVEC... defined > in > libiberty.h which are called everywhere in GCC, but I don't know if these are > the only ways to allocate memory in GCC through the Garbage Collector. Those allocate via malloc, not the GC system.
ggc_alloc is where you want to be looking. jeff
