Boehm garbage collector

The Boehm–Demers–Weiser garbage collector, often simply known as Boehm GC, is a conservative garbage collector for C and C++ developed by Hans Boehm, Alan Demers, and Mark Weiser.

Boehm–Demers–Weiser Garbage Collector
Other namesbdwgc
Original author(s)Hans-Juergen Boehm
Developer(s)Ivan Maidanski, et al.
Initial release1988 (1988)
Stable release
8.2.4 / May 26, 2023 (2023-05-26)
Repository
Written inC
Typegarbage collector
Licensesimilar to X11 (free software)
Websitewww.hboehm.info/gc/

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.

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