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From: Hendrik Tews <hendrik.tews@kernkonzept.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 42013@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42013: 26.3; hash tables are not garbage collected
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:15:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1pq8f72.fsf@cert.kernkonzept.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0vi790j.fsf@igel.home> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:14:20 +0200")

> The garbage collector is conservative, so objects may not be collected
> immediately, even if they appear unreferenced.

OK, would it be possible to update the documentation?

Is there a way to trigger a full collection of all unreachable
objects? I would like to use this and the numbers that
garbage-collect returns to check that a certain piece of code
does not leak memory. Or is there another way to check that all
allocations done within a form are unreachable after leaving that
form?

Thanks

Hendrik





  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-22 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-22 22:20 bug#42013: 26.3; hash tables are not garbage collected Hendrik Tews
2020-10-17 10:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-21 12:47   ` Hendrik Tews
2020-10-22 11:22     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-22 12:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-22 15:15   ` Hendrik Tews [this message]
2021-09-16 15:13     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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