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authorIvan Maidanski <ivmai@mail.ru>2014-02-23 16:56:54 +0400
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Update emails/links due to project site and ML transition
(www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm -> www.hboehm.info; gc@linux.hpl.hp.com -> bdwgc@lists.opendylan.org) * AUTHORS: Update email. * doc/gc.man: Likewise. * README.QUICK: Change external link to gcinterface.html to local one (pointing to the file in "doc" folder). * README.md: Replace BDWGC site URL (www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm to www.hboehm.info). * doc/gc.man: Likewise. * doc/gcdescr.html: Likewise. * doc/gcinterface.html: Likewise. * doc/overview.html: Likewise. * doc/scale.html: Likewise. * README.md: Update mailing list info (gc@linux.hpl.hp.com to bdwgc@lists.opendylan.org, gc-announce@linux.hpl.hp.com to bdwgc-announce@lists.opendylan.org). * configure.ac: Likewise. * doc/gcdescr.html: Likewise. * doc/overview.html: Likewise. * doc/tree.html: Remove unnecessary external link.
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@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ This is version 7.5.0 (next release development) of a conservative garbage
collector for C and C++.
You might find a more recent version
-[here](http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc).
+[here](http://www.hboehm.info/gc/), or
+[here](https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc).
## Overview
@@ -36,9 +37,6 @@ and
* Boehm H., "Simple GC-safe Compilation", Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN '96
Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation.
-(Some of these are also available from
-[here](http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/papers/), among other places.)
-
Unlike the collector described in the second reference, this collector
operates either with the mutator stopped during the entire collection
(default) or incrementally during allocations. (The latter is supported
@@ -55,8 +53,8 @@ CSL 84-7). Doug McIlroy wrote a simpler fully conservative collector that
was part of version 8 UNIX (tm), but appears to not have received
widespread use.
-Rudimentary tools for use of the collector as a leak detector are included
-([link](http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/leak.html)),
+Rudimentary tools for use of the collector as a
+[leak detector](http://www.hboehm.info/gc/leak.html) are included,
as is a fairly sophisticated string package "cord" that makes use of the
collector. (See doc/README.cords and H.-J. Boehm, R. Atkinson, and M. Plass,
"Ropes: An Alternative to Strings", Software Practice and Experience 25, 12
@@ -64,7 +62,7 @@ collector. (See doc/README.cords and H.-J. Boehm, R. Atkinson, and M. Plass,
in Xerox Cedar, or the "rope" package in the SGI STL or the g++ distribution.)
Further collector documentation can be found
-[here](http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc).
+[here](http://www.hboehm.info/gc/).
## General Description
@@ -516,9 +514,9 @@ per MB of accessible memory that needs to be scanned and processor.
Your mileage may vary.) The incremental/generational collection facility
may help in some cases.
-Please address bug reports [here](mailto:gc@linux.hpl.hp.com). If you are
-contemplating a major addition, you might also send mail to ask whether
-it's already been done (or whether we tried and discarded it).
+Please address bug reports [here](mailto:bdwgc@lists.opendylan.org).
+If you are contemplating a major addition, you might also send mail to ask
+whether it's already been done (or whether we tried and discarded it).
## Copyright & Warranty