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From: Michael Vanier <mvanier@endor.bbb.caltech.edu>
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Subject: newbie question: GNAT and garbage collection
Date: 16 Apr 2001 20:45:20 -0700
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Hi,

I'm new to Ada.  I've been looking at the GNAT compiler and I have a simple
question: does the Ada language as implemented by GNAT support any kind of
automatic garbage collection for dynamically-allocated objects?  If not, do
any Ada compilers?

TIA,

Mike

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Mike Vanier	mvanier@bbb.caltech.edu
Department of Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech 216-76
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