Re:Show HN: A simple garbage collector for C
by antoinealb on Friday December 20, 2019 @05:09AM
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The usecase for this project (according to the README) is:
> The original motivation for gc is my desire to write my own LISP in C, entirely from scratch - and that required garbage collection.
Another reason would be in platforms where you cannot run the language of your choice (because lack of implementations of JVM / Python / whatever), although those would maybe not allow malloc either.
> The original motivation for gc is my desire to write my own LISP in C, entirely from scratch - and that required garbage collection.
Another reason would be in platforms where you cannot run the language of your choice (because lack of implementations of JVM / Python / whatever), although those would maybe not allow malloc either.