Re: a .NET alternative (GJC et al)

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> "Fergus" == Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> writes:

Fergus> Could anyone summarize the current state of accurate garbage
Fergus> collection support in GCC?

The summary: there isn't any, and as far as I know nobody is planning
to add it.

People have added support for this to gcc in the distant past.  I have
a paper describing their work.  However, I don't think that code was
ever submitted for inclusion (and at the time there was probably
little interest anyway).

For Java we'd definitely be interested in accurate GC.  At least,
we're interested if it can improve performance.  I don't think any of
the gcj hackers has plans to work on this though.  We already have too
many implementable projects to work on.

Tom