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diff --git a/devel/boehm-gc/pkg/DESCR b/devel/boehm-gc/pkg/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..97708039560 --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/boehm-gc/pkg/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +The Boehm-Weiser garbage collection package, for C and C++ - +garbage collection and memory leak detection libraries. + +A garbage collector is something which automatically frees malloc'd +memory for you by working out what parts of memory your program +no longer has pointers to. As a result, garbage collectors can also +inform you of memory leaks (if they find memory they can free, it means +you have lost all of your pointers to it, but you didn't free it). + +This package has two libraries and some include files: +libgc.a - a garbage collection library, replaces malloc/free/new/delete/etc + with versions that do automatic garbage collection +libleak.a - a leak detection library, which is just libgc.a compiled with + different switches. + +C programs may be linked against either of these, and should run (with +GC or leak detection) without change. C++ programs must include a header +to use garbage collection, though leak detection should work without +such source code modifications. See the man page and header files. + +-- Mike McGaughey <mmcg@cs.monash.edu.au> + +ps: garbage collection is addictive. |