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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Better support for garbage collection
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Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> The general question regarding garbage collection and Ada is: With the
> current Ada language, type safe, non-compacting garbage collection is
> already possible.

So is type-safe compacting garbage collection.

>...  Why don't typical Ada implementations (which
> produce native code) support garbage collection?  There seem to be
> many reservations about garbage collections, so I think the priority
> issue is to provide an implementation of garbage collection which
> demonstrates that better garbage collection 

...what?

- Bob