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From: wyant@SABER.COM
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Re:  ATK + Conservative GC?
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Date: 18 Dec 90 20:28:33 GMT
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	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