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: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) Subject: Re: newbie Q: storage management Date: 1997/05/09 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 240459166 References: Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Robert Dewar wrote: >Obviously the only way ACT would get interested in doing work on GC, like >any other vendor, is if there were significant customer demand for such >work. Right now, there is no customer demand whatsoever, so the likelihood >of us doing any work on GC is zero. 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). And then perhaps ACT could be convinced to put this into their normal binary distributions, so it would be easily available to anybody using GNAT. What do you think, Robert? I'm not a big fan of "conservative" GC, and I know Robert isn't either. But it's better than nothing. (The advantage of "conservative" GC here is that it can work with an uncooperative compiler.) - Bob