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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection in Ada
Date: 1996/10/17
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In article <dewar.845470588@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>  (though please for example do not try to use the Boehm collector
>    with the gigi code in GNAT, it will likely not work, although
>    actually I think it is probably OK, even though this code uses
>    virtual origins, I think the "real" pointers are still around.

What does it mean to use virtual origins in C, given that all arrays
start at zero?

- Bob