ritchie turner schrieb: > I'm new to fpc and pascal, i.e. I've never done a project in it, but > i've been following the lists for a while and dabbling. > > I like using a garbage collector and I know you can replace the memory > manager in fpc so i guess it's probably trivial to replace the standard > with boehm. Wondered if anyone's done it and how they got on, and if > there are issues with the idea. > > It is quite easy to use the boehm gc inside delphi. I did some test a few years ago. Since the fpc memory manager interface is very close to delphi, it should be no problem to port the boehm gc to fpc.
the major disadvantage I see, is, that all the existing code is not gc aware - you loose the benefits of a gc. cheers, Adrian. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
