prescheme & boehm leak detection?

[Raoul Duke]

http://hboehm.info/gc/leak.html

so prescheme doesn't use a gc, but i am wondering... does it use
malloc/free such that i could easily patch it to use boehm gc in the
leak detection mode?

i have downloaded the sources and am looking at them but remain
stunningly clueless so far...

[Raoul Duke]

and/or even use boehm as a real gc?

[Michael Sperber]

Post by Raoul Duke
http://hboehm.info/gc/leak.html
so prescheme doesn't use a gc, but i am wondering... does it use
malloc/free such that i could easily patch it to use boehm gc in the
leak detection mode?
i have downloaded the sources and am looking at them but remain
stunningly clueless so far...

I'm not aware that anyone has tried, but I don't see why it wouldn't
work. (Unless you use funky address arithmetic like the VM, of course.)
Also, I don't see why plugging in the Boehm GC shouldn't work.

[Richard Kelsey]

Post by Michael Sperber

Post by Raoul Duke
http://hboehm.info/gc/leak.html
so prescheme doesn't use a gc, but i am wondering... does it use
malloc/free such that i could easily patch it to use boehm gc in the
leak detection mode?
i have downloaded the sources and am looking at them but remain
stunningly clueless so far...

I'm not aware that anyone has tried, but I don't see why it wouldn't
work. (Unless you use funky address arithmetic like the VM, of course.)
Also, I don't see why plugging in the Boehm GC shouldn't work.

Just to be clear, compiled PreScheme programs do use malloc() and free().
If you look at prescheme/test/write.scm, 'allocate-memory' and
'deallocate-memory' compile to calls to malloc() and free(). As Mike says,
it should work fine with Boehm's GC as long as your program doesn't itself
do anything odd with pointers.

-Richard