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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ammo-zilla
Date: 1999/10/29
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In article <7vadsp$8q61@news.cis.okstate.edu>, dvdeug@x8b4e53cd. (David Starner) writes:

> If garbage collection is not mandated, however, then it can't be relied on 
> in Ada code that might run under systems that don't garbage collect - i.e. 
> portable Ada code can't use it. Hence either you deallocate any memory 
> yourself, or suffer garbage leaks while running under a non-garbage 
> collecting system.

Vendors are free to implement garbage collection and will do so
to the extent that the market demands.

They have done so, including the vendor of "free" compilers.

Larry Kilgallen