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From: Didier Utheza <ddutheza@bu.edu>
Subject: Re: Garbage colletion
Date: 1999/11/04
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To: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Oberon for Linux is using a garbage collector developed in C. The people
that created the compiler just interfaced the GC code to the Oberon
compiler. The code is avalaible to the public, the biggest problem with
Ada would be to reimplement the GC in native code in the logic of the
compiler, but regarding stability, this GC has a good rating!
Greeting.

On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Robert Dewar wrote:

> In article <slrn81qgvs.mm.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de>,
>   lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke) wrote:
> > After learning Ada without GC most programmers learned to deal
> > without it and have some problems to solve. So there is really
> > no need for GC ;-)
> 
> Well we agree more than you think here. I think if someone did
> a general GC for GNAT, there would be lots of people interested
> in it, and after all for many people, since GNAT is on pretty
> much all machines, they don't mind not being portable to
> non-GNAT compilers, so even if only GNAT did it, it would still
> get a lot of use.
> 
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