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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,5e4d70e34eb3cd88 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed.inode.at!news.hispeed.ch!linux2.krischik.com!news From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Garbage Collection for Ada Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 10:22:48 +0200 Organization: Cablecom Newsserver Message-ID: <4155413.eEoQ3m6NZY@linux1.krischik.com> References: <1127594225.613707.86600@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84-73-3-68.dclient.hispeed.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.hispeed.ch 1127637915 20286 84.73.3.68 (25 Sep 2005 08:45:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 08:45:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.9.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5128 Date: 2005-09-25T10:22:48+02:00 List-Id: 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 -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com