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From: email@domain.com (Dale Stanbrough)
Subject: Re: Why C++ is successful
Date: 1998/08/08
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Timothy Welch  wrote:

" Out of curiousity why are (1) and (2) problems? Can't the GC just
  check to see if the pointer is pointing to memory on the stack?"

Which stack would you be referring to? A stack in one of the many dynamically
allocated tasks that you have allocated? What about a threaded environment?
Do you expect that GC for C or C++ environments will think about 
the Posix Threads environments?

Dale