[ILUG] Wow....GC for C

[Pat Martin]

Why would anyone rip you to shreds over this?  Using a garbage
collector is a sometimes a pretty good idea.  I was a systems
programmer at my last job and chasing down pointers was a full
time job; even with that wonderful tool Purify.  As long as the
code's portable (which Hans indicates could be an issue), a gc
can speed up the development process significantly.

- Pat

----- Original Message -----
From: "John P. Looney" <john at antefacto.com>
To: "Irish LUG list" <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 4:35 AM
Subject: [ILUG] Wow....GC for C


> I found this mentioned on Freshmeat;
>     http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
>
>  It's a garbage collector that works for C. Is this too good to be true ?
> Has anyone used it successfully ? Will people rip me to shreds for wanting
> someone else to collect my garbage ? Will this help reduce memory leaks in
> code ?
>
> Kate
>
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