Re: Garbage collector on Ada?

[plmenendez@asturlinux.org (Pedro Menendez)]

Thanx a lot for your answers. I found them very useful

In article <3D132D6C.5050908@ib-paus.com>, "Dr. Michael Paus" <paus@ib-paus.com> 
wrote:
>Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
>> Pedro Menendez wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>Is there any Ada implementation that uses a garbage collector?
>> 
>> 
>> Yes. JGNAT (and maybe also others).
>> 
>> 
>>>I thought so, but someone told me that it would be quite impossible
> considering
>>>Ada is a real-time language, but in case there were some garbage collector he
>>>said that it wouldn't be a standard implementation
>> 
>> 
>> Since the standard specifically allows garbage collectors,
>> it would be very strange if it was impossible to implement.
>> But it definitely appears to be atypical.

what I mean is there any authoritative source that states this?
the RM or MIL/STD ??? , for instance?

is there any validated compiler with GC?

>Just for curiosity. Has there ever been an Ada implementation besides JGNAT
> which
>uses a garbage collector?
>
>Michael

regards



Pedro Menendez

Oviedo (Asturias) - Spain

http://petra.euitio.uniovi.es/~i1641014