The GC package contains the Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector, which can be used as a garbage collecting replacement for the C malloc function or C++ new operator. It allows you to allocate memory basically as you normally would, without explicitly deallocating memory that is no longer useful. The collector automatically recycles memory when it determines that it can no longer be otherwise accessed. The collector is also used by a number of programming language implementations that either use C as intermediate code, want to facilitate easier interoperation with C libraries, or just prefer the simple collector interface. Alternatively, the garbage collector may be used as a leak detector for C or C++ programs, though that is not its primary goal.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.1 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://www.hboehm.info/gc/gc_source/gc-8.0.6.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 4878e629f482600f2060f30853c7b415
Download size: 1.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 11 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with tests)
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gc
Install GC by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--enable-cplusplus \
--disable-static \
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/gc-8.0.6 &&
make
To test the results, issue: make check.
Now, as the root user:
make install && install -v -m644 doc/gc.man /usr/share/man/man3/gc_malloc.3
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/gc-8.0.6:
This option is used so the package will install the documentation
in a versioned directory.
--enable-cplusplus: This
parameter enables the building and installing of the C++ library
along with the standard C library.
--disable-static: This
switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.
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