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From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Any way of dumping strings?
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2021 19:54:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v96wb19v.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83fsy0xjrd.fsf@gnu.org

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
>> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2021 19:03:06 +0200
>> 
>> Is there a method for dumping or displaying those strings or vectors?
>
> Set a GDB breakpoint in mark_vectorlike, with commands that dump each
> vector, then trigger GC?

I was hoping for something that could show at least thousands of
instances. Going one by one would be extremely time-consuming and
potentially deceptive.

Does Emacs zero-initialize memory when it is garbage-collected? Even if
it doesn't, maybe it is enough to dump the whole image to a file. Some
part would be gc-ed data, but a comparatively small part among all the
rest of hundreds of MB.




  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-02 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-02 17:03 Any way of dumping strings? Óscar Fuentes
2021-06-02 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-02 17:54   ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2021-06-02 18:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-02 18:33       ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-06-02 18:44         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-02 18:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-02 18:55   ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-06-02 19:30     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-03  6:08       ` Eli Zaretskii

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