[mercury-users] GC_malloc_atomic_uncollectable

Paul Bone pbone at csse.unimelb.edu.au
Tue Jan 4 12:32:56 AEDT 2011


On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:47:10AM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Michael Day wrote:
> 
> >>As to whether it _should_ be enabled by default for Mercury, AFAIK
> >>no-one has actually tested the effect of enabling it with Mercury and
> >>that would need to done before any decision is made.
> >
> >Is there a summary of the changes that have been made to the
> >garbage collector included in the Mercury distribution compared
> >with the official release?
> 
> The only changes from the official release are the addition of some
> callbacks for supporting threadscope; these are relatively minor, grep
> for GC_mercury_callback in the Boehm source.

I thought I saw some other GC_mercury -named things in Boehm.  But perhaps
we're not making use of them.

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