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GC-cooperative C++

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A garbage collector for C++ should maintain the spirit of the language as much as possible and yet provide mechanisms for reliable development and debugging of programs utilizing garbage collection. This paper proposes a design of such a system, including a minimal set of language changes, and compile-time and runtime environment enhancements. The design provides support for many different kinds of garbage collection strategies (copying, mark and sweep, generational, ...), does not impose extensive overhead on runtime objects that do not use garbage collection, and imposes as few restrictions on programming style as possible.

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  1. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 45221-0030, Cincinnati, OH

    A. Dain Samples

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Samples, A.D. (1992). GC-cooperative C++. In: Bekkers, Y., Cohen, J. (eds) Memory Management. IWMM 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 637. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0017198

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