In common use, GC refers to mark and sweep and similar systems where allocations are not freed at an easy to predict time.

In common use, by those that never learn the theory behind their tools.

That is a tracing GC by the way.

There are also tracing GC implementations with deterministic resource management APIs, .NET and D have them for example.

People use words in a way that is useful. Really this just shows that the pedantic academic definition of GC is not the most useful one.

	▲	pjmlp a few seconds ago \| parent [-]
		Useful to them usually, or it goes to show how little our profession cares about learning the proper terms.