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From: geb@amber.Rational.COM (Gary Barnes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Implicit garbage collection in Ada systems
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Date: 9 Jan 91 23:03:33 GMT
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In article <EACHUS.91Jan4133652@aries.linus.mitre.org> eachus@linus.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes:
>     The second reason is that there are Ada compilers for several
>systems where garbage collection is normally a function of the
>operating system: Symbolics, Rational, Intel 432 (High Integrity
                              ^^^^^^^^

In the sense used by this thread, Rational does not provide garbage
collection.  The "garbage collection" provided by an R1000 is the same
as that provided by Unix or VMS.  When a program/process/job stops
running then the space in the "swap area" is reclaimed.  Internal to a
single program execution, this does not qualify as garbage collection.

Gary		geb@Rational.com