On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 04:18, Albert wrote:
Are the developers aware of this issue?
Yes, I've been working with the FreeBSD developer in question some.
As far as I can tell, the leaks are not due to a problem with the Boehm GC, and appear to be present on other platforms as well.
Is there any hope to have a FreeBSD running 0.40 version any time soon?
That's up to the folks who handle the FreeBSD port. IMO, the leaks aren't bad enough to stop releases on other platforms, but that's their call (and there may be additional issues on FreeBSD that I don't understand yet).
I've been spending some time trying to track down the remaining leaks, but it's very tedious work as they are hard to localize.
In the long-term, the leaks may just go away as more code is switched over to automatic memory management (right now, only a relatively small portion of the codebase relies on the Boehm GC).
-mental