[LLVMdev] Accurate garbage collection

[Eugene Toder]

He said that he's already using it.

Eugene

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Pedro Ferreira
<pedro.ferreira at imgtec.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 12:16 +0100, David Given wrote:
>> On 17/09/10 09:55, Pedro Ferreira wrote:
>> > As I understand it, LLVM simply gives you support for garbage collectors
>> > that you have to implement yourself and link into the final binary,
>> > similar to what C's malloc does (it's a library call). The issue with
>> > GC's is that they need to be provided info about the stack, thats where
>> > LLVM's support comes in.
>>
>> Are there any standalone accurate garbage collectors that I could use in
>> my project, rather than having to write me own (or use libgc, which is
>> what I'm doing now)? Garbage collectors are subtle and very tricky and I
>> really don't want to have to do one myself, as I know I'll just get it
>> wrong.
>>
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> You can try Hans Bohem Garbage collector.
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
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