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This port will install only shared libraries with malloc redirection enabled, that will allow for easy dependency handling for ports that required libgc build with specific features and will allow to avoid hacks of building own version of libgc library.
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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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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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This package only brings Boehm-GC libraries with malloc redirection.
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-- Mike McGaughey <mmcg@cs.monash.edu.au>
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ps: garbage collection is addictive.
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WWW: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
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