A PROPOSAL FOR A COOPERATIVE, GARBAGE COLLECTED "C" PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

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dc.contributor.authorGinter, Andreweng
dc.date.accessioned2008-05-20T23:28:24Z
dc.date.available2008-05-20T23:28:24Z
dc.date.computerscience1999-05-27eng
dc.date.issued1990-04-01eng
dc.description.abstractThis report identifies issues which arise when extending the C language to cooperate with a garbage collector managing a garbage collected heap. Adding a garbage collected heap to C is intended to increase programmer productivity by reducing the complexity of applications which use dynamically allocated memory. A mechanism is known for garbage collection in C applications which do not cooperate with the collector, but this mechanism is relatively expensive. This report proposes modifications to the C language which will allow it to cooperate with a garbage collector. The proposal modifies the syntax and semantics of C very little, and the extension degrades the performance of only those expressions which manipulate references to the garbage collected heap. The proposal was partially implemented in a compiler for a C-like language whose target machine was a FORTH-like virtual machine.eng
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dc.identifier.department1990-384-08eng
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/31276
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/46516
dc.language.isoEngeng
dc.publisher.corporateUniversity of Calgaryeng
dc.publisher.facultyScienceeng
dc.subjectComputer Scienceeng
dc.titleA PROPOSAL FOR A COOPERATIVE, GARBAGE COLLECTED "C" PROGRAMMING LANGUAGEeng
dc.typeunknown
thesis.degree.disciplineComputer Scienceeng
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