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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b307bd75c8071241 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: newbie Q: storage management Date: 1997/05/10 Message-ID: <5l1sva$a8g@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 240559008 References: Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) writes: >Perhaps somebody has time to get some existing conservative GC to work >with GNAT, which might be easy if it already works with gcc. Perhaps >Hans Boehm's GC (I *think* it's freely available, and I *think* it works >with gcc -- I could be wrong on both counts). Hans Boehm's GC is indeed freely available and it does indeed work fine with gcc. However, getting it to work in the presence of tasking may require quite a bit of work. The Boehm collector does apparently have some support for multithreading on some systems, but I have never used that aspect of it. -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.