[fpc-pascal] Boehm GC

[ritchie turner]

Thanks all, I've got something to go on now.

bd.

On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 16:34 +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Krishna said:
> > >
> > > I'm new to fpc and pascal, i.e. I've never done a project in it, but
> > > i've been following the lists for a while and dabbling.
> > >
> > > I like using a garbage collector and I know you can replace the memory
> > > manager in fpc so i guess it's probably trivial to replace the standard
> > > with boehm. Wondered if anyone's done it and how they got on, and if
> > > there are issues with the idea.
> > >
> > 
> > Very many years ago I asked the same question on this mailing list :)
> > 
> > Check it out here:
> > http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-pascal/2002-November/004229.html
> > 
> > IIRC, it worked on Win32 with boehmgc linked in as a DLL. Don't
> > remember if it was faster than the default memory manager though.
> 
> I found this:
> - http://cc.embarcadero.com/Item/21646
> 
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