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Re: Debugging memory leaks

From: Hans Boehm <Hans dot Boehm at hp dot com>
To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
Cc: Hans Boehm <Hans dot Boehm at hp dot com>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:28:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Debugging memory leaks
References: <16991.58252.664506.704480@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com><Pine.GHP.4.58.0504171119090.5241@tomil.hpl.hp.com><16998.30937.415064.454632@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com>

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Andrew Haley wrote:

> Hans Boehm writes:
>  > Unfortunately, you currently have to rebuild libgcj to get this
>  > functionality.  You need to build with --enable-gc-debug.
>
> Okay.  Is this disabled by default because it harms performance?
>
Yes, unfortunately.  Among other things, it currently adds significant
space overhead to every object.  This is probably largely fixable by keeping
the extra data structures on the side and building them only on
request.  But that hasn't been done yet.

Hans

References:
- Debugging memory leaks
  - From: Andrew Haley
- Re: Debugging memory leaks
  - From: Hans Boehm
- Re: Debugging memory leaks
  - From: Andrew Haley

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