[ruby-core:26262] [Feature #2260] better access with GC_DEBUG

Feature #2260: better access with GC_DEBUG
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2260

Author: Roger Pack
Status: Open, Priority: Normal

It would be nice to be able to know where [what line of code] objects were allocated one.

For instance
ObjectSpace.each_object{|o| puts o.debug_info }

or something like

>> a = 'b'
>> ObjectSpace.describe(a) 
=> "instance of String at 0xffff from line 4 file irb"

Then users could use it to more easily search for memory reference leaks.

Since the information is already there with the "-DGC_DEBUG=1" flag, it should be possible.
I'd be happy to give it a shot if it would be useful.

Thoughts?
-r


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