1999-04-07 10:01:30 +02:00
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Copyright 1988, 1989 Hans-J. Boehm, Alan J. Demers
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1999-11-02 00:15:51 +01:00
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Copyright (c) 1991-1995 by Xerox Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Copyright (c) 1996-1999 by Silicon Graphics. All rights reserved.
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Copyright (c) 1999 by Hewlett-Packard. All rights reserved.
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1999-04-07 10:01:30 +02:00
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THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED
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OR IMPLIED. ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
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Permission is hereby granted to use or copy this program
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for any purpose, provided the above notices are retained on all copies.
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Permission to modify the code and to distribute modified code is granted,
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provided the above notices are retained, and a notice that the code was
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modified is included with the above copyright notice.
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For more details and the names of other contributors, see the
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README file and gc.h. This file describes typical use of
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the collector on a machine that is already supported.
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INSTALLATION:
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Under UN*X, type "make test". Under OS/2 or Windows NT, copy the
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appropriate makefile to MAKEFILE, read it, and type "nmake test".
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Read the machine specific README if one exists. The only way to
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develop code with the collector for Windows 3.1 is to develop under
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Windows NT, and then to use win32S.
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If you wish to use the cord (structured string) library type
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"make cords". (This requires an ANSI C compiler. You may need
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to redefine CC in the Makefile.)
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If you wish to use the collector from C++, type
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"make c++". These add further files to gc.a and to the include
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subdirectory. See cord/cord.h and gc_c++.h.
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TYPICAL USE:
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Include "gc.h" from this directory. Link against the appropriate library
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("gc.a" under UN*X). Replace calls to malloc by calls to GC_MALLOC,
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and calls to realloc by calls to GC_REALLOC. If the object is known
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to never contain pointers, use GC_MALLOC_ATOMIC instead of
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GC_MALLOC.
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Define GC_DEBUG before including gc.h for additional checking.
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