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@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ along with GCC; see the file COPYING3. If not see
We compose this into a few steps.
1. Decide on a removal policy for values stored in the table.
- hash-traits.h provides class templates for the three most common
+ hash-traits.h provides class templates for the four most common
policies:
* typed_free_remove implements the static 'remove' member function
@@ -105,6 +105,13 @@ along with GCC; see the file COPYING3. If not see
Use this for garbage-collected data that needs to be preserved across
collections.
+ * ggc_cache_remove is like ggc_remove, except that it does not
+ mark the entries during the normal gc mark phase. Instead it
+ uses 'keep_cache_entry' (described above) to keep elements that
+ were not collected and delete those that were. Use this for
+ garbage-collected caches that should not in themselves stop
+ the data from being collected.
+
You can use these policies by simply deriving the descriptor type
from one of those class template, with the appropriate argument.