[constantcrying]

>Why is garbage collection called memory safety? Garbage collection in whatever form is only memory safe if it doesn't free memory that will still be used.

Yes. A garbage collector is only safe if it works correctly. What an irrelevant observation. Nothing can guarantee that something works correctly if it doesn't work correctly.

[bluGill]

Keep reading. That is all a garbage collector gives me. there are lots of other things that that are memory unsafe that garbage collectors don't give me.