[plug] Garbage Collection in C

[James Devenish]

In message <20031126034808.89543.qmail at web8103.mail.in.yahoo.com>
on Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 03:48:08AM +0000, Alex Bobby wrote:
> Do we have any better technical approach to implement garbage
> collection in C, other than establishing a counter and freeing ()
> the dynamic chunk when the count becomes zero.

Although the C language itself does not define high-level garbage
collection, there are runtime libraries for this purpose. If you have
APT installed, you might try `apt-cache search garbage` for 'popular'
options. Of course, Google is probably more informative.

> I believe to make use of the storage classes of the pointers pointing
> to the chunk, the information embedded in the object file, by the
> compiler.
>  
> Thus, we go beyond the compilation phase, which I am not interested in.

Are you saying you want to do static compile-time analysis or are you
saying that you /don't/ want to? I am not sure what you mean. The
solutions to these problems are not likely to be Linux-specific,
so you might find better advice elsewhere.


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