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From: Abhijeet More <abhijeet.more@gmail.com>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
	guile-user@gnu.org,
	"Tibi Turbureanu" <tiberiuturbureanu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Possible Memory Leak with stream-for-each
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:16:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikf5ERjsSAaA_SCkm9Hdq1Smb8m0D968bv1cVUp@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3iq3vg9dg.fsf@unquote.localdomain>

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> wrote:

[snip]

> To really track this down we need a heap profiler. To make a heap
> profiler, we need to hack libgc. libgc has some of the things we need
> already, but some are only present in debug builds, which is
> ridiculous -- one should always have the ability to profile the heap. We
> need to figure out which value is being misidentified as a pointer to a
> heap-allocated stream-pair.
>
> That is my analysis anyway. The next step is to be able to expose the
> back-pointer graph from libgc, and write analysis tools to figure out
> which non-stream objects point to a stream.

[snip]

Andy,
Thanks! That's a great answer!
I'll see what I can do with these guidelines.
Abhijeet



  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-31 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-19 18:08 Possible Memory Leak with stream-for-each Abhijeet More
2010-07-20 20:36 ` Andy Wingo
2010-07-21  7:00   ` Tristan Colgate
2010-07-24 16:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-07-24 16:32   ` Abhijeet More
2010-07-24 16:46     ` Abhijeet More
2010-07-26  9:36       ` Andy Wingo
2010-07-30  0:38         ` Abhijeet More
2010-07-31 11:48           ` Andy Wingo
2010-07-31 20:16             ` Abhijeet More [this message]
2010-08-11 16:57               ` Abhijeet More
2010-08-02  3:29             ` Tibi Turbureanu
2010-08-15 15:12             ` Heap profiler Ludovic Courtès
2010-09-02 12:49 ` Possible Memory Leak with stream-for-each Ludovic Courtès
2010-09-02 16:20   ` Julian Graham
2010-09-02 18:46   ` Andy Wingo

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