[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6822) some variable-sized arrays

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6822 >

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:39:15PM -0800, Benoit Hudson wrote:
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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6822 >
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> This may be a silly question, but in this day and age, why are we still
> worried about memory allocation issues?  Why not use a garbage collector
> like boehm_gc ?

I think that using a GC for a C program isn't very natural. I think we
cope quite good with memory leaks.

I have heard about Boehm GC but never used it. I will not start
testing and using it with production software like freeciv.

        Raimar

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