Re: gawk memory leak

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7 Apr 1997 15:02:01 -0400

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From: cyber_surfer@wildcard.demon.co.uk (Cyber Surfer)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 7 Apr 1997 15:02:01 -0400
Organization: The Wildcard Killer Butterfly Breeding Ground
References: 97-03-165 97-04-020 97-04-022 97-04-040
Keywords: GC, storage

max@gac.edu uttered these wise words...


> So, no garbage collection doesn't solve the memory leak problem by
> itself, in the sense of without thought, but it isn't just a matter of
> making leaks less common (and premature deallocations/reallocations
> impossible). Instead, it is a matter of making the reasoning much
> easier that it takes to make the leaks go away entirely, as opposed to
> just becoming less common.


I've quoted text from this article in my GC page,
<URL:http://www.wildcard.demon.co.uk/dev/gc.html>


Thanks.
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    Martin Rodgers | Programmer and Information Broker | London, UK
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