From: Ivan Maidanski
During the mark phase, the collector tracks ``near misses'', i.e. attempts
to follow a ``pointer'' to just outside the garbage-collected heap, or
diff --git a/doc/overview.html b/doc/overview.html
index f49222f6..1be56ad1 100644
--- a/doc/overview.html
+++ b/doc/overview.html
@@ -27,10 +27,9 @@
before that at
http://reality.sgi.com/boehm/gc.html
and before that at
-
-ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/gc/gc.html. ]
+ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/gc/gc.html. ]
-The Boehm-Demers-Weiser
+The Boehm-Demers-Weiser
conservative garbage collector can
be used as a garbage collecting
replacement for C malloc or C++ new.
@@ -68,7 +67,7 @@ included as part of the
GNU compiler
distribution. The source
code for that version is available for browsing
-here.
+here.
The arguments for and against conservative garbage collection
in C and C++ are briefly
@@ -110,8 +109,7 @@ HP/UX 11 pthreads, Tru64 pthreads, and MacOS X threads are supported
in recent versions.
Separately distributed ports
For MacOS 9/Classic use, Patrick Beard's latest port is available from
-
-http://homepage.mac.com/pcbeard/gc/.
+http://homepage.mac.com/pcbeard/gc/.
(Unfortunately, that's now quite dated.
I'm not in a position to test under MacOS. Although I try to
incorporate changes, it is impossible for
@@ -124,7 +122,7 @@ Precompiled versions of the collector for NetBSD are available
versions of the collector.
Joel Bartlett's mostly copying conservative garbage collector for C++.
-John Ellis and David Detlef's Safe Efficient Garbage Collection for C++ proposal. +John Ellis and David Detlef's +Safe Efficient Garbage Collection for C++ +proposal.
Henry Baker's paper collection.
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ research in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. The Vesta configuration management system.