gilstrap@sbctri.sbc.com (Brian R. Gilstrap) (05/09/91)
Archive-name: languages/c++/edelson-gc-c++/1991-04-29 Archive: midgard.ucsc.edu:/pub/tr/ucsc-crl-90-19* [128.114.14.6] Original-posting-by: gilstrap@sbctri.sbc.com (Brian R. Gilstrap) Original-subject: Intros to scavenging GC Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) I'm not a compiler writer (though I do read this group regularly...yes, I get left behing with moderate frequency :), however, I'm interested in the possibility of implementing scavenging garbage collection in C++ classes. I realize that there's no way to make it totally transparent to programmers without compiler support, but I'm curious about just how close one can get and whether the resulting classes would be easy enough to use that there would be a win for programmers. So, I am hoping to get references to introductory articles on garbage collection... Thanks! Brian R. Gilstrap gilstrap@calvin.sbc.com gilstrap@sbctri.sbc.com [Daniel Ross Edelson (daniel@cis.ucsc.edu) wrote a long paper, probably his thesis, on the topic of garbage collected C++. A postscript version can be FTPed from midgard.cs.edu:~ftp/pub/tr/ucsc-crl-91-19.ps.Z. It's fairly long, 106 pages including all the source code. -John] -- Send compilers articles to compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us or {ima | spdcc | world}!iecc!compilers. Meta-mail to compilers-request. -- comp.archives file verification midgard.ucsc.edu -rw-r--r-- 1 jean ftp 193733 Jul 18 1990 /pub/tr/ucsc-crl-90-19-nocode.ps.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 jean ftp 220773 Jul 18 1990 /pub/tr/ucsc-crl-90-19.ps.Z found edelson-gc-c++ ok midgard.ucsc.edu:/pub/tr/ucsc-crl-90-19*