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From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection in Ada
Date: 1996/10/23
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dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

>But this is, so far, a fantasy. The only kind of GC provided by standard
>implementations, at least in my experience, is proper accurate GC, that is
>of course embedded into the compiler or operating system or both.
>
>You can certainly imagine a system that provides conservative garbage
>collection as a standard part of a compiler, or even just a standard
>system library. But I don't know of any such commercial products, do you?

I don't know of any such commercial products, but I do know a
GPL'ed system that provides conservative garbage collection
as a standard part of the implementation: Mercury.
(For more info, see <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/mercury>).

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