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From: marti@ethz.UUCP (Robert Marti)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Eiffel vs. C++ -- Let's drop the garbage collection arguments
Summary: you CAN have gc for C++
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Date: 12 Jun 89 13:31:10 GMT
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In article <778@redsox.bsw.com>, campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell) writes:
> In C++, you CANNOT have garbage collection.

Wrong.  You can redefine operator new to use a garbage collecting
allocator, for example the one written by Hans-Juergen Boehm and Alan
Demers, which is described in
    H.-J. Boehm, M. Weiser:  Garbage Collection in an Uncooperative
    Environment.  Software Practice & Experience, Sept. 1988,
    pp.807-820.
and available from the archive server at RICE University.

In release 2.0, you can even redefine operator new on a class per class
basis.

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