A garbage collector for C/C++ (Hans Boehm)

[Razii]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:43:31 -0700 (PDT), James Kanze
<ja*********@gm ail.comwrote:

>All I can say is that there are a number of users (myself
included) who find the investment worthwhile enough to do it
ourselves. It took me less than a day to get the Boehm
collector up and running with g++ under Linux, and I don't have
access to all of the inside knowledge of the implementors. And
10%, over the life of a project, is a lot more than one man-day,
even for a single project. 10% gain for 90% of the C++ projects
almost certainly adds up to man-years.

Doesn't look that simple to me. I downloaded gc version 6.7 and 6.8.

nmake nodebug=1 gc.mak

makefile(389) : fatal error U1001: syntax error : illegal character
'{' in macro

I then downloaded 7.0 and by using the exact same command as posted
above (no change), it built fine. What a weird error.

Then I added the header file

#include "gc_cpp.h"

Changed the "new" to

Tree *t = new (GCNew) Tree;

cl /O2 -I"\gc-7.0\include" new.cpp "\gc-7.0\Release\gc. lib"

Compiled fine but when I ran the new.exe,

"This application has failed to start because MSVCR90.dll was not
found"

I found the file and put it in the same directory. Next error: An
application has made an error to load the C runtime library
incorrectly."

What the heck.

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On 2008-04-14 16:36, Razii wrote:

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:43:31 -0700 (PDT), James Kanze
<ja*********@gm ail.comwrote:

>>All I can say is that there are a number of users (myself
included) who find the investment worthwhile enough to do it
ourselves. It took me less than a day to get the Boehm
collector up and running with g++ under Linux, and I don't have
access to all of the inside knowledge of the implementors. And
10%, over the life of a project, is a lot more than one man-day,
even for a single project. 10% gain for 90% of the C++ projects
almost certainly adds up to man-years.

Doesn't look that simple to me. I downloaded gc version 6.7 and 6.8.

nmake nodebug=1 gc.mak

makefile(389) : fatal error U1001: syntax error : illegal character
'{' in macro

I then downloaded 7.0 and by using the exact same command as posted
above (no change), it built fine. What a weird error.

Then I added the header file

#include "gc_cpp.h"

Changed the "new" to

Tree *t = new (GCNew) Tree;

cl /O2 -I"\gc-7.0\include" new.cpp "\gc-7.0\Release\gc. lib"

Compiled fine but when I ran the new.exe,

"This application has failed to start because MSVCR90.dll was not
found"

I found the file and put it in the same directory. Next error: An
application has made an error to load the C runtime library
incorrectly."

What the heck.

Did you read README.QUICK and doc/README.win32?

--
Erik Wikström

[Razii]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:31:16 GMT, Erik Wikström
<Er***********@ telia.comwrote:

>Did you read README.QUICK and doc/README.win32?

Yes, I did. Still unable to make it work. GC with compiled language is
not a good idea anyway. There should be a VM (not JVM or CLR but
special VM with JIT compiler designed specifically for C++). GC job
can be handled by VM and people will have a choice to run C++ software
compiled to bytecode (more portable) that runs on a VM.

[gpderetta]

On Apr 15, 11:23 pm, Razii <DONTwhatever.. [e-mail] ote:

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:31:16 GMT, Erik Wikström

<Erik-wikst...@telia. comwrote:

Did you read README.QUICK and doc/README.win32?

Yes, I did. Still unable to make it work. GC with compiled language is
not a good idea anyway. There should be a VM (not JVM or CLR but
special VM with JIT compiler designed specifically for C++). GC job
can be handled by VM and people will have a choice to run C++ software
compiled to bytecode (more portable) that runs on a VM.

Use LLVM if you want an (optional) VM. It does just-in-time/ahead-of-
time compilation.
It has a powerful, profile-guided link-time and run-time optimizer and
it uses gcc front end, so compatibility with the standard is pretty
good.
It doesn't have a big user base yet, so it might still have some bugs
and rough edges.

--
gpd