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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: newbie Q: storage management
Date: 1997/05/10
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Date: 1997-05-10T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <5l1sva$a8g@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>,
Fergus Henderson <fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
>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.

Well, I believe GNAT uses more-or-less standard thread packages, so if
Boehm supports that, then perhaps GNAT can, too.  If that's not
possible, even a GC that only works for single-task Ada programs would
be a nice thing for many people to have.

- Bob