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From: Herbert Euler <herberteuler@hotmail.com>
To: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Is there any possible memory leak in GC?
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:21:08 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BAY143-W11E2F4E0FB7FD56BF53ACADA660@phx.gbl> (raw)


Hello,

Here is just a possibly stupid question on GC.

After watching the use of `cons_free_list', I am confused about it.
`cons_free_list' holds the unmarked cons cells during GC sweeping.
When `cons' creates new cons cells, it picks any ones in
`cons_free_list' if possible.  But each time when sweeping happens,
`cons_free_list' is reset to 0, and its previous value is lost.  Since
GC can run at any time with `garbage-collect', will this lead to
memory leak or not?

Regards,
Guanpeng Xu
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             reply	other threads:[~2007-12-13 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-13 15:21 Herbert Euler [this message]
2007-12-13 16:36 ` Is there any possible memory leak in GC? Stefan Monnier
2007-12-13 23:48   ` Herbert Euler

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