Re: OOC Garbage Collector Proposal

[Brian Hawley <brian.hawley@bigfoot.com>]

>> By the way, who is doing the reference implementation of this OGC?  We
>
>You can contact Mr. Hekkelman at the CC address.  He has volunteered
>to do the reference implementation. 
>
>> need a working prototype and some experimental results with OOC.  For
>> my part I volunteer to provide the necessary compiler support in oo2c
>> for such a prototype.
>
>I was hoping you would volunteer for the oo2c bits.  Thanks. ;-)

I was hoping that someone else would volunteer. I would love to rewrite
the RScheme collector in Oberon but I have had a few problems with OOC
so far that have made it difficult to use. For one thing, I now have
little access to Unix boxes, just Win32 boxes, so the configure scripts,
the libraries and RCS are rather awkward for me to use. I am going to
buy CS-RCS so the last one shouldn't be difficult, but rewriting the
libraries for native Win32 support should be an interesting task. Can
we split the Unix-specific aspects of the C backend and libs into their
own subdirectories, so I have a better idea of how much I need to port?

Brian Hawley