How do you work with gc.cpp in IDE?

[huoyaoyuan]

It's is included in gcsvr.cpp and gcwks.cpp, with required .h also in them. Visual Studio cannot see the .h included when browsing gc.cpp, and gets thousands of errors about missing declarations.

Since all the included headers are same, with only difference of #define SERVER_GC 1, can they be moved to gc.cpp?

@Maoni0

[Maoni0]

I don't use VS other than as an editor so I'm not familiar. I know that in VS you could do stuff like go to definition of a function in gc.cpp if you load up the project so it does work somewhat at least.

CC @dotnet/gc maybe other folks on the team have an opinion.

[huoyaoyuan]

Thanks for your reply!
Navigation experience is quite important for new code readers. I guess that the structure of the file was from many years ago that you are very familiar with, but newcomers do need help.

[Maoni0]

actually it's always been this way since I started working on GC (this whole gcwks.cpp/gcsvr.cpp were done by someone else and way before my time). the way I learned the code base was by running a simple test under a debugger and stepping through the GC functions. the BotR GC chapter lists the top level functions. I would suggest to set breakpoints on them and step through the code that way. let us know if you have issues running a test.