Boehm garbage collector

Boehm–Demers–Weiser Garbage Collector
Other names	bdwgc
Original author(s)	Hans-Juergen Boehm
Developer(s)	Ivan Maidanski, et al.
Initial release	1988; 36 years ago
Stable release	8.2.4 / May 26, 2023; 17 months ago
Repository	github.com/ivmai/bdwgc ;
Written in	C
Type	garbage collector
License	similar to X11 (free software)
Website	www.hboehm.info/gc/

The Boehm–Demers–Weiser garbage collector, often simply known as the Boehm GC or Boehm collector, is a conservative garbage collector for C and C++^[1] developed by Hans Boehm, Alan Demers, and Mark Weiser.^[2]^[3]

Boehm GC is free software distributed under a permissive free software licence similar to the X11 license. The first paper introducing this collector appeared in 1992.^[4]

^ Cite error: The named reference Koranne2011 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Hans Boehm, A garbage collector for C and C++
^ Andrew W. Appel (1998), Modern Compiler Implementation in C - "Boehm Conservative Garbage Collector",
^ H. J. Boehm and D. Chase, "A Proposal for Garbage-Collector-Safe C Compilation", The Journal of C Language Translation, Volume 4 Number 2 December 1992, pages 126-141

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[homepage-2] Hans Boehm, A garbage collector for C and C++

[appel-3] Andrew W. Appel (1998), Modern Compiler Implementation in C - "Boehm Conservative Garbage Collector",

[4] H. J. Boehm and D. Chase, "A Proposal for Garbage-Collector-Safe C Compilation", The Journal of C Language Translation, Volume 4 Number 2 December 1992, pages 126-141

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