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Sender: "Team Ada: Ada Advocacy Issues (83 & 95)" <[log in to unmask]>
X-To: prabhath rao <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:19:00 -0400
Reply-To: David Botton <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Does GNAT Ada 95 provide garbage collector ?
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From: David Botton <[log in to unmask]>
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> I would like to know whether GNAT Ada95 has a garbage collector or not?

Only the version compiling to the JVM includes garbage collection.

Ada 95, the language, incorporates some forms of garbage collection with out
a garbage collector.

See:
http://www.adapower.com/lang/storage_size.html

and just general good programming technique in Ada usually avoids most need
for GC.

David Botton

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