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: 103376,3498dd887729ed19 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Garbage Collection in Ada Date: 1996/10/21 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 191068633 references: <01bbb910$f1e73f60$829d6482@joy.ericsson.se> <199610132138291604607@dialup101-6-14.swipnet.se> <1996Oct13.194807.1@eisner> <199610181934142408603@dialup101-3-15.swipnet.se> <19961020113354302739@dialup118-2-15.swipnet.se> <54fho5$c7l@infosrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de> organization: New York University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Nick asked "Following the topic -- does GNAT Ada95 compiler (for Win95) support the GC? Thanks in advance, Nick." Well I guess you have not been following it *too* carefully, or you would know the answer. As I have discussed several times, GNAT does not implement GC for a simple reason, it is not something our customers are asking for. Yes I understand the enthusiasts are sure that implementing GC will bring flocks of new customers but I am not convinced (note that we go through examples of this all the time, people are always convinced that we should implement their favorite feature in GNAT and fund the implementation ourselves because we will get scads of extra paying users :-) It's certainly on the list as a future possible enhancement, in fact we have done quite a bit of work studying the issue of whether we can provide a special garbage collected storage pool. But right now we are much more busy with things that are customers do want, and that will *definitely* attract more userss, notably validation!