X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f X-Trace-PostClient-IP: 68.147.131.211 From: Brian Inglis Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Garbage collector? Organization: Systematic Software Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 33 Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:46:52 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.71.223.147 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT shaw DOT ca X-Trace: pd7tw3no 1097527612 24.71.223.147 (Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:46:52 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:46:52 MDT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 03:05:13 GMT in comp.os.msdos.djgpp, boohiss wrote: >I am almost ready to begin beta testing an application that I have been >working on. > >I'm sure there are lots of bugs to work out, but one aspect that I am most >concerned about >is garbage collection. > >I haven't used much in the way of dynamic memory in my application, but I >have used several >third party libraries, and I'm not entirely comfortable that my >allocation/reallocation is >flawless. > >Is there some sort of garbage collection library for DJGPP, that will put >my mind at ease? >Ideally, it would work with little or no modification of the source code. >As I mentioned, I'm >using a few third party libraries that I wouldn't be able to make coding >changes to. > >Any ideas? Google for Boehm GC -- it's used by parts of GCC as a garbage collector, and as part of most Linux distros. -- Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada Brian DOT Inglis AT CSi DOT com (Brian[dot]Inglis{at}SystematicSW[dot]ab[dot]ca) fake address use address above to reply