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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection for Ada
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 10:22:48 +0200
Date: 2005-09-25T10:22:48+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4155413.eEoQ3m6NZY@linux1.krischik.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1127594225.613707.86600@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com

llothar wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> i found an old patch to gcc that implements a garbage collector for
> GNAT (based on the popular Boehm-Weisser GC).
> 
> Is there any current work on this topic.

Yes:

http://adacl.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/GarbageCollector

Ok - there was no update for a while - but then nothing much changed in that
area anyway.

> I was never interested in ADA because i don't go back to full manual
> management, but i'm now looking for a new language for one project that
> got to big.

Ada's natural storrage is the stack and not the heap - most objects are
created on the stack. So even with manual heap management Ada is a lot
easier to use then heap based. 

Martin
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mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net
Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-25  8:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-24 20:37 Garbage Collection for Ada llothar
2005-09-24 22:17 ` jimmaureenrogers
2005-09-25  8:22 ` Martin Krischik [this message]
2005-09-27 23:49   ` Robert A Duff
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1999-02-19  0:00 Nick Roberts
1999-02-19  0:00 ` Nick Roberts
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