[ILUG] Wow....GC for C

[kevin lyda]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:35:13AM +0100, John P. Looney wrote:
>  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 ?

in order: yes, probably, yes, it might.  i just try to write code that
doesn't leak however.  mcheck in gcc is nice for that.

kevin

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