GC
1. garbage collection.
2. A storage allocator with garbage collection by
Hans-J. Boehm and Alan J. Demers. Gc is a plug-in replacement
for C's malloc. Since the collector does not require
pointers to be tagged, it does not attempt to ensure that
all inaccessible storage is reclaimed.
Version 3.4 has been ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, Vax/BSD,
Ultrix, Intel 80386/Unix, SGI, Alpha/OSF/1,
Sequent (single threaded), Encore (single threaded),
RS/600, HP-UX, Sony News, A/UX, Amiga, NeXT.
(ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/russell/gc3.4.tar.Z).
(2000-04-19)
Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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