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The Boehm-Weiser garbage collection package, for C and C++ -
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garbage collection and memory leak detection libraries.
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A garbage collector is something which automatically frees malloc'd
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memory for you by working out what parts of memory your program
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no longer has pointers to. As a result, garbage collectors can also
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inform you of memory leaks (if they find memory they can free, it means
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you have lost all of your pointers to it, but you didn't free it).
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This package has two libraries and some include files:
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libgc.a - a garbage collection library, replaces malloc/free/new/delete/etc
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with versions that do automatic garbage collection
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libleak.a - a leak detection library, which is just libgc.a compiled with
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different switches.
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C programs may be linked against either of these, and should run (with
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GC or leak detection) without change. C++ programs must include a header
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to use garbage collection, though leak detection should work without
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such source code modifications. See the man page and header files.
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-- Mike McGaughey <mmcg@cs.monash.edu.au>
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ps: garbage collection is addictive.
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