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From: jackson@freyja (Jerry Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: retiring gets(3)
Message-ID: <276@esosun.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 88 16:03:57 GMT
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In-reply-to: chase@Ozona.orc.olivetti.com (David Chase)

In article <32596@oliveb.olivetti.com>, chase@Ozona (David Chase) writes:

>(Yes, a garbage collector for C --
>           ~ftp/sun-source/gc.shar@titan.rice.edu
>It works on Sun3s, Sun4s, Vaxes.  Send mail with subject "help" to
>"archive-server@rice.edu" if you lack FTP access.)
>

I've written garbage collectors for lisp and have a pretty good idea
what is involved... I can't imagine what this does, but I'm pretty sure
it's something very different.  Could someone please explain what this
program does?

Thanks,

Jerry Jackson