Proposal to package C/C++ garbage collector
I propose to package the C/C++ garbage collector, gc, by Hans-J. Boehm and
Alan Demers, which is described as `...a garbage collecting storage allocator
that is intended to be used as a plug-in replacement for C's malloc.'
I need this to provide garbage collection for smalleiffel, but it may be
useful to others as well.
Please shout if anyone else is already working on it.
The names `gc', or `libgc' seem likely to cause confusion, so I propose to
call the package `boehmgc'. The actual library, though, will be libgc.so or
libgc.a. Comments, please?
The licence says:
Copyright 1988, 1989 Hans-J. Boehm, Alan J. Demers
Copyright (c) 1991-1996 by Xerox Corporation. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1996 by Silicon Graphics. All rights reserved.
THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED
OR IMPLIED. ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Permission is hereby granted to use or copy this program
for any purpose, provided the above notices are retained on all copies.
Permission to modify the code and to distribute modified code is granted,
provided the above notices are retained, and a notice that the code was
modified is included with the above copyright notice.
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