At 1:24 PM -0400 4/14/02, Clinton A. Pierce wrote:
>At 10:06 PM 4/13/2002 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>>At 5:35 PM -0400 4/13/02, Clinton A. Pierce wrote:
>>>I'm fighting a now-you-see-it now-you-don't kind of bug and I was
>>>wondering if there's a way to completely turn off garbage
>>>collection and memory re-use for debugging?
>>
>>Yes. The sweepoff and collectoff ops will turn of DOD runs and GC
>>sweeps, respectively. sweepon and collecton will re-enable them.
>>(They are attached to the counters, so they nest and you need to
>>match off and on counts)
>>
>>Just added the things to CVS, so you'll need to resync to get 'em.
>
>Got 'em and tried them. Some bugs vanished, but others are still
>there. Hrm. At least I can eliminate some potential sources.
I was afraid of that. I'm seeing buffer corruption, which is what I'm
currently tracking down. It likely isn't just my new code, then.
Oh, well, at least we'll get a more stable interpreter. (I'm
half-hoping the bugs you find turn out to be ours...)
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