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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Garbage collector on Ada?
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:07:10 +0200
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Pedro Menendez wrote:

> Is there any Ada implementation that uses a garbage collector?

Yes. JGNAT (and maybe also others).

> I thought so, but someone told me that it would be quite impossible considering
> Ada is a real-time language, but in case there were some garbage collector he
> said that it wouldn't be a standard implementation

Since the standard specifically allows garbage collectors,
it would be very strange if it was impossible to implement.
But it definitely appears to be atypical.

Jacob
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