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From: "Dr. Michael Paus" <paus@ib-paus.com>
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Subject: Re: Garbage collector on Ada?
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:43:08 +0200
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Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> 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.

Just for curiosity. Has there ever been an Ada implementation besides JGNAT which
uses a garbage collector?

Michael