Re: Garbage Collector

[Mike Griebling <grieblm@trt.allied.com>]

> This may be the long term goal.  My short and mid term goal is to ship
> oo2c with functional gc support.  Obviously, I cannot ship it with a
> hypothetical garbage collector.  And even if OGC exists, I cannot dump
> support for Boehm's gc as long as OGC does not support all of the
> systems supported by Boehm's gc.  You see, this is required _and_
> desired.  Until then (read: over the next few years, and possibly
> indefinitely) oo2c will support the conservative gc.  And oo2c/gc can
> only implement a fraction of the interface of OGC.Mod.

How would we practically create a test-bed OOC that could use the new
garbage collector and provide the required run-time support?
 
> > Although, I believe that, as a start, the "GC" and "RegisterObject"
> > functions are enough for the user interface.  Adding the additional
> > user functions should be easy enough.
> 
> Adding them is not possible with Boehm's gc.  And the specs need to
> address the fact, that they are not available for all implementations
> of OOC.

That's fine by me.  These additions, if we decide they are important
enough to add, could be nops with Boehm's gc.

Michael G.