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bug#12892: ‘gc-stats’ w/o ‘bytes-malloced’
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Andy Wingo |
Subject: |
bug#12892: ‘gc-stats’ w/o ‘bytes-malloced’ |
Date: |
Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:03:50 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) |
On Wed 06 Mar 2013 08:41, Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:
> () Andy Wingo <address@hidden>
> () Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:00:08 +0100
>
> On Wed 06 Mar 2013 06:51, Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > What is the meaning of this field?
> >
> > It's a copy of the C global var ‘scm_mallocated’, which tracks
> > "current allocation" (all malloced minus all freed).
>
> There is no such C global var.
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/tree/libguile/gc.c?h=ttn-back-in-the-saddle#n210
>
>
> You have forgotten perhaps that we are trying to figure out how to surf
> a change between 1.8 and 2.0, and that "this field" is a 1.8 field?
1.8 is the old stable series, so it's not a great referent in the
present tense.
Anyway, Guile 2 does not track the number of bytes freed -- only the
bytes that are mallocated.
Andy
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