From c72c1cf5f95cbe537b005028f1743cddb16ef203 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: zuntum Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 00:57:41 +0000 Subject: Move pkg/ files into package's toplevel directory --- devel/boehm-gc/DESCR | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 devel/boehm-gc/DESCR (limited to 'devel/boehm-gc/DESCR') diff --git a/devel/boehm-gc/DESCR b/devel/boehm-gc/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..4477e34f3aa --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/boehm-gc/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +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. + +PS: garbage collection is addictive. -- cgit v1.2.3