The following resources may be useful to people interested in memory management:
Ben Zorn's repository of information on both manual and automatic memory management.
A mailing list for discussing GC in programming languages, open to all and unmoderated. For more information, send mail to Majordomo@iecc.com with the following command in the body of your email message: info gclist; for subscription instructions, add a line saying: help. The list is archived at IECC and TUNES (threaded).
Although only a draft, this is a thorough explanation of many details of garbage collection.
A newsgroup for Microsoft® WindowsTM programmers, concentrating on memory management issues.
More useful links on memory management.
Richard Jones wrote Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management, the first English-language book concerned solely with garbage collection. This site contains a large bibliography and links to other resources.
A collection of interesting papers by the Object-Oriented Programming Systems group headed by Paul Wilson.
A collection of relevant papers, including papers from the OOPSLA Workshops on Garbage Collection in 1990, 1991, and 1993.
Details of all the International Symposia/Workshops on Memory Management
Proceedings of the International Symposia on Memory Management, plus list of related conferences.
1997 OOPSLA Workshop on Garbage Collection and Memory Management (unrefereed).
The FAQ for the main C language Usenet newsgroup; it covers common "gotchas" with malloc/free and static memory. See section 7 in particular.
The FAQ for the main C++ language Usenet newsgroup; it covers constructors, destructors, and lots more.