[m-rev.] for review: fix misleading io__report_stats

[Zoltan Somogyi]

On 26-Apr-2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > runtime/mercury_wrapper.[ch]:
> > 	Add a global variable that records the size of the zones allocated
> > 	via Boehm gc since the last call to io__report_stats.
> > 
> > runtime/mercury_memory_zones.c:
> > 	Increment this global variable as appropriate.
> > 
> > library/benchmarking.m:
> > 	Subtract the global variable from the value reported for heap cell
> > 	allocations, then zero it to prevent double counting.
> 
> This fix doesn't work, I'm pretty sure.  E.g. it will do the wrong thing for
> 
> 	main -->
> 		io__report_stats,
> 		io__report_stats.
> 
> and for
> 
> 	main -->
> 		gc__garbage_collect,
> 		io__report_stats.

Why? What wrong thing do you think it will do?

Zoltan.
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