retiring gets(3)

[Jerry Jackson]

In article <32596 at oliveb.olivetti.com>, chase at Ozona (David Chase) writes:

>(Yes, a garbage collector for C --
>           ~ftp/sun-source/gc.shar at titan.rice.edu
>It works on Sun3s, Sun4s, Vaxes.  Send mail with subject "help" to
>"archive-server at rice.edu" if you lack FTP access.)
>

I've written garbage collectors for lisp and have a pretty good idea
what is involved... I can't imagine what this does, but I'm pretty sure
it's something very different.  Could someone please explain what this
program does?

Thanks,

Jerry Jackson