Compiler Support for Garbage Collection in a Statically Typed Language

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 1992, Pages 273-282

  Diwan, Amer ^a   Moss, Eliot ^a   Hudson, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; MODULA (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

COMPILER OPTIMIZATION; GARBAGE COLLECTION;

PROGRAM COMPILERS;

EID: 0026981904     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: 15581160     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/143103.143140     Document Type: Article

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