On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:25:10AM +0000, Alan Burlison wrote:
> Shame it only works with the Sun compilers.
See also Boehm's garbage collector, which is rather more portable:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
"The collector uses a mark-sweep algorithm. It provides incremental
and generational collection under operating systems which provide
the right kind of virtual memory support. (Currently this includes
SunOS[45], IRIX, OSF/1, Linux, Windows NT, and Windows 95, with
varying restrictions.) It allows finalization code to be invoked
when an object is collected. It can take advantage of type
information to locate pointers if such information is provided,
but it is usually used without such information."
- Damien
