[comp.soft-sys.andrew] ATK + Conservative GC?

wyant@SABER.COM (12/19/90)

	Has anyone tried adding GC to Andrew?  I've got our free conservative GC
	just sitting here (on arisia.xerox.com (13.1.100.206),
	~ftp/pub/gc.shar), which provides replacements for malloc(), realloc(),
	and free().  Should I try just linking it in?  Are there other things to
	look out for?

	Bill

I'd bet that interior pointers generated by ATK would cause lots 'o problems. I don't believe that this version of PARC's conservative GC 
handles interior pointers correctly. Still it's worth the experiment.

-- Geoff
wyant@saber.com

wdc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey) (12/19/90)

What advantage does your "conservative GC" offer over the andrew malloc?

The thing I have always liked best about andrew malloc, was that it
worked, even when IBM's didn't.

-wdc