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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
>> "27  {AI05-0229-1} Implementations are permitted, but not required, to 
>> provide garbage collection."
> Yes, it's permitted -- but nothing says that it can be useful. :-)

Certainly it's hugely limited if the system is prevented from moving
objects around in memory during GC.  I don't see anything in the Ada
Distilled description of access types that would prevent that, so I'll
have to read your other post more carefully.