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: fdb77,dd0392e39594314a X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,452439ecb75f28fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) Subject: Re: Java bashing Date: 1996/09/29 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 186098996 sender: news@inmet.camb.inmet.com (USENET news) x-nntp-posting-host: houdini.camb.inmet.com references: <324BF757.7ACE@gsfc.nasa.gov> followup-to: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.ada organization: Intermetrics, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-09-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Mike Stark (michael.e.stark@gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote: : James F'jord Lynn wrote: : > : : > While this statement is true (and I am glad to see other languages on the : > Java VM), I do not know if using Java-ADA (Jada?) conforms to the ISO : > standard on the issue of GC. I believe that it doesn't, but I have not : > seen anything on this topic for either side. Perhaps someone on the : > Jada project can enlighten us? : > : I assume you mean the Ada ISO standard -- I believe that it allows but : doesn't require GC, and it isn't specific about how GC is accomplished. : I cross-posted to comp.lang.ada to allow the language lawyers to : correct and/or embellish. That's true. The Ada ISO standard allows the use of garbage collection. There is a pragma "Controlled" which is designed for turning *off* garbage collection for a particular access type. This pragma might be implemented in the Java environment by performing allocations for such an access type using a foreign language allocator (such as C's malloc), or be left unimplemented given its inappropriateness to the Java virtual machine execution environment (see RM95-1.1.3(6) which allows such variations from the standard). : ... : Mike ----- -Tucker Taft stt@inmet.com http://www.inmet.com/~stt/ Intermetrics, Inc. Cambridge, MA USA