From: stock@esa.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de   
      
   Matthias-Christian Ott  writes:   
      
   > Hi,   
   > today I stumbled upon a very intresting problem on garbage collection:   
   >   
   > Suppose we have a goto-free, pointer-less, static strongly typed   
   > programming language without any binary libraries (so all source code   
   > is available at compile time).   
   >   
   > Then we could construct the control flow graph for the entire programme.   
   >   
   > Couldn't we than statically (of course depending on conditions during   
   > runtime) determine the locations for the appropriate malloc() and free()   
   > calls, depending on if a referenced object is no longer used?   
      
   Just a stupid question: If you dont have pointers, why you need malloc   
   and free? In my eyes you dont need any dynamic memory ( under your   
   premises).   
      
   Florian   
      
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