From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fd63afa4dc364b7e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-16 22:20:08 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail From: Lao Xiao Hai Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Better support for garbage collection Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 22:13:40 -0800 Organization: AdaWorks Software Engineering Message-ID: <3AB30094.AEEA56DA@ix.netcom.com> References: <98m938$2iod0$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> Reply-To: richard@adaworks.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 3f.35.af.93 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 17 Mar 2001 06:15:27 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5793 Date: 2001-03-17T06:15:27+00:00 List-Id: Someone wrote: > > > > Didn't Norman Cohen have a proposal for a storage pool extension that > > provided some support for garbage collection? I thought so, but my neural > > garbage collector seems to have reclaimed that hunk of my brain... 1) John Barnes' newest edition has an excellent example of using the Storage Pools package to control garbage collection, 2) GNAT has a built in implementation of Storage Pools package that is easy to use. 3) As noted by another post, garbage collection comes in many forms. Which one is the right one for Ada. Probably none. That is one reason to leave it alone? Richard Riehle