>i want to be sure you know you just said "we want MH to run on older >operating systems, not just the ones being installed today and in the >future." even microsoft's windows 10 ubuntu thingie can handle hboehm.
Weeelll ... I don't think that quite captures my view. It would be more accurate to say, "Today, the people maintaining hboehm have ported it to a large number of systems." We have no guarantee that will continue to be true. And if we switch to using GC for memory management, it's probably a one-way trip (and I don't see how we could reasonably make it so a user gets to pick between garbage collection and explicit memory management at compile time). It took us a few decades to finally make our libraries be agnostic to the stdio implementation; hitching our wagon to a third-party GC library just seems like we'd be asking for a similar set of headaches all over again. --Ken -- Nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
