Re: garbage collector

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Thursday, October 4, 2001, at 09:29 PM, Matej Kosik wrote:

> Hi
>
> Is there some garbage-collector for `Objective C' ?
> I do not want to use `retain', `release' and `autorelease',
> if it is not necessary [as I hope it is not].
>
> I have looked again [quickly] into some book on NeXTSTEP - Objective C
> but there is no word about garbage collector or
> `retain/release/autorelease'
>
> Can somebody please send me some links to documents or whatever from
> which I can learn stuff:
>
>         - do I need to use retain/release/autorelease in any case?
>         - if not, what have I to do with `gcc' to make it collecting
>                 unnecessary objects AUTOMATICALLY [without asking
>                 me to help him by putting retain/release/autorelease
>                 into the source code]
>
> If there is some way how to configure `gcc' to use the `boehm-gc'
> [I have tried to configure gcc with `--enable-objc-gc', but `gcc'
>  instalation step failed]

Yes .. gcc supports objective-c with boehm-gc

However, support for gc in gnustep-base is really at alpha stage, and is
not being actively developed (volunteers welcome), and gc has really not
been addressed at all in the other gnustep libraries.