IMHO, garbage collection is a kludge to fix memory leakage problems, which are a particularly common affliction with C, with it's particularly heavy reliance on pointers ... <BG> Joe.

-----Original Message----- From: Russell Whitaker [SMTP:russ@ashlandhome.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 4:37 PM To: gpc@gnu.de Subject: gcc-3+

Hi found this at http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/

Miscellaneous ideas:

Chill should use garbage collection.

Convert the Chill front end to use garbage collection instead of obstacks, so that it can work again with current GCC.

Suspect this should apply to gpc as well. Any guess how much time and effort it would take to make the change?

Russ