On Monday, 21 October 2013 at 10:36:21 UTC, Artem Tarasov wrote:
There seems to be some serious issue with the GC, yet almost no
attention
is paid to that.
(See e.g. this thread:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected])
I did a simple test: `void main { new ubyte[65536]; }`. This
doesn't pass
memcheck!
Valgrind tells about using uninitialized values in
core.thread.callWithStackShell called by gc.gcx.Gcx.mark.
A conservative garbage collector is never "correct" according to
Valgrind [0]. You need to configure Valgrind to ignore the GC.
Here is an example for the Boehm GC:
https://github.com/UU-ComputerScience/uhc/tree/master/EHC/misc/valgrind
[0]
http://www.hpl.hp.com/hosted/linux/mail-archives/gc/2004-November/000629.html
