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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!jimad
- From: jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock)
- Subject: Re: Garbage Collection for C++
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.230747.12913@microsoft.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 23:07:47 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Aug07.224928.26210@news.mentorg.com> <1992Aug9.070906.25470@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <1992Aug11.043907.21096@news.mentorg.com>
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- In article <1992Aug11.043907.21096@news.mentorg.com> bcannard@hppcb36.mentorg.com (Bob Cannard @ PCB x5565) writes:
- |Sure. The question is, how to use those library functions - which are legion -
- |with the new GC data structures? We don't want to have to write new versions
- |of them without good cause.
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- This problem is already addressed in Modula-3, for example, which already
- has reference counting, and further has the ability to call "C" code.
- See "Systems Programming in Modula-3" as a start.
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