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From: lars.farm@ite.mh.se (Lars Farm)
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection in Ada
Date: 1996/10/21
Date: 1996-10-21T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19961021092404210786@dialup116-6-9.swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.845809398@merv


Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:

> You can certainly imagine a system that provides conservative garbage
> collection as a standard part of a compiler, or even just a standard
> system library. But I don't know of any such commercial products, do you?

A question of definitions, perhaps. Would you agree that the built in
new/delete is part of the runtime system in C++? Users may legaly
replace the global new/delete. Wouldn't the replacement then be part of
the runtime system? Note, replacements are subject to the same
requirements as the built in new/delete. Boehms collecting allocator
(and others) replaces the global new/delete via this mechanism. Is'nt it
then part of the runtime system?

I think a general purpose GC allocator must be viewed as part of the
runtime system even if you bought that part of the runtime system from
some other vendor than the compiler.

Does Ada have a similar mechanism? Or is Ada's optional GC purely the
vendors option?


-- 
Lars Farm, lars.farm@ite.mh.se




  parent reply	other threads:[~1996-10-21  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 126+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-10-13  0:00 Garbage Collection in Ada Jonas Nygren
1996-10-13  0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-13  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
     [not found]     ` <19961014115513529729@dialup105-2-16.swipnet.se>
1996-10-16  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16  0:00         ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-16  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16  0:00             ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17  0:00                 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16  0:00         ` Lars Farm
1996-10-16  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16  0:00             ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17  0:00                 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-17  0:00                 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-17  0:00                 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17  0:00             ` Lars Farm
1996-10-23  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-13  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-14  0:00   ` John Howard
1996-10-15  0:00     ` Lars Farm
1996-10-15  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-15  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-15  0:00         ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-15  0:00         ` Lars Farm
1996-10-17  0:00         ` Thomas Kendelbacher
1996-10-17  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-23  0:00         ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-23  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-14  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-14  0:00     ` Lars Farm
1996-10-15  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-16  0:00         ` Lars Farm
1996-10-16  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-19  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-19  0:00                 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-20  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-20  0:00                     ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-20  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21  0:00                     ` Geert Bosch
1996-10-21  0:00                       ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-21  0:00                     ` Lars Farm [this message]
1996-10-21  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21  0:00                         ` Lars Farm
1996-10-23  0:00                     ` Fergus Henderson
1996-10-24  0:00                     ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-20  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-20  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21  0:00                     ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-21  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-19  0:00               ` Richard Kenner
1996-10-15  0:00     ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-15  0:00   ` Keith Thompson
1996-10-13  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-14  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-15  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-15  0:00 ` Hannes Haug
1996-10-15  0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-15  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16  0:00   ` whiting_ms@corning.com (Matt Whiting)
1996-10-16  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17  0:00   ` John Howard
1996-10-17  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18  0:00       ` Lars Farm
1996-10-19  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-20  0:00           ` Lars Farm
1996-10-21  0:00             ` Nicolay Belofastow
1996-10-21  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-22  0:00               ` Lars Farm
1996-10-20  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-20  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-22  0:00         ` Mitch Gart
1996-10-23  0:00           ` Fergus Henderson
1996-10-23  0:00           ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-27  0:00             ` Richard Riehle
1996-10-29  0:00         ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-30  0:00         ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-30  0:00         ` James Rogers
1996-10-30  0:00         ` Brian Rogoff
1996-10-30  0:00         ` Jonas Nygren
1996-10-18  0:00       ` Lars Farm
1996-10-20  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-18  0:00       ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-16  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-16  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-16  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-17  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-16  0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1996-10-16  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17  0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17  0:00 ` Rick Hudson
1996-10-17  0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-17  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17  0:00     ` Richard Kenner
1996-10-18  0:00 ` Rick Hudson
1996-10-18  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-18  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-23  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21  0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
1996-10-21  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-22  0:00 ` Tapani Rundgren
1996-10-22  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-23  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-24  0:00   ` Mitch Gart
1996-10-24  0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-24  0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-25  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-28  0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-29  0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-11-02  0:00 Jon S Anthony
     [not found] <01bbc6a3$4cf03480$829d6482@joy.ericsson.se>
1996-10-31  0:00 ` Mitch Gart
1996-10-31  0:00   ` Jonas Nygren
1996-11-03  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
1996-11-06  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-06  0:00       ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-01  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-11-06  0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1996-11-07  0:00   ` Tucker Taft
1996-10-22  0:00 Brian Rogoff
1996-10-11  0:00 C++ Standardization (was: Once again, Ada absent from DoD SBIR solicitation) Dave Wood
1996-10-17  0:00 ` Garbage Collection in Ada Thomas Kendelbacher
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