From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2007-09-29T03:54:38+09:00
Subject: Re: gc.c -- possible logic error?

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Hugh Sasse wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > In message "Re: gc.c -- possible logic error?"
> >     on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:57:22 +0900, Hugh Sasse <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
> > 
> > |OK, but heaps_used should never get to be negative, should it?. True, I
        [...]
> > 
> > It's not uncommon among C programs to use signed int for positive only
> > values, if INT_MAX (2147483647) is big enough, and I think it is, for
> > this case.
> 
> OK, though with machines having memory at about 3 GB these days, 
> I can see that changing. 
> > 
> > I don't think the patch will solve the leak problem, but if it would,
> > I'd love to merge the fix in.
> 
> OK, I'll give this a try and let you know what happens.  Thank you.

Done this.  All ruby tests pass OK, but it doesn't solve the memory
leak (the process only reaches 13MB that I tried).
> > 
> > 							matz.
> > 
> 
        Thank you,
        Hugh
> 
>