The Boehm–Demers–Weiser garbage collector, often simply known as Boehm GC, is a conservative garbage collector for C and C++[1] developed by Hans Boehm, Alan Demers, and Mark Weiser.[2][3] Boehm GC is free software distributed under a permissive free software licence similar to the X11 license. The first paper introducing this collector appeared in 1992.[4] Design[edit] Hans Boehm describes the op