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‘gc-stats’ w/o ‘bytes-malloced’

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From: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>
To: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn <at> gnuvola.org>
Cc: 12892 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12892: ‘gc-stats’ w/o ‘bytes-malloced’
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:00:08 +0100

On Wed 06 Mar 2013 06:51, Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn <at> gnuvola.org> 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.

>    We could track total allocations registered via
>    scm_gc_register_allocation.
>
> Sounds complicated.

On the contrary, this function is called already for mallocations.

Andy
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