On 5/17/19 4:04 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > Its not the collector’s imprecision that’s the problem here. Boehm > GC is conservative i.e. if an integer in the memory looks like a > pointer to memory then that memory is leaked. The problem here is > that gcc leaves dead pointers in registers and doesn’t overwrite > them if there isn’t a lot of register pressure. I have a suggestion: try writing a function in assembly language that clears all call-clobbered registers. I reckon this will solve 75% of your problem. -- Andrew Haley Java Platform Lead Engineer Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com> https://keybase.io/andrewhaley EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671
