On Wed 06 Mar 2013 08:41, Thien-Thi Nguyen <t...@gnuvola.org> writes:
> () Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> > () Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:00:08 +0100 > > On Wed 06 Mar 2013 06:51, Thien-Thi Nguyen <t...@gnuvola.org> writes: > > > What is the meaning of this field? > > > > It's a copy of the C global var ‘scm_mallocated’, which tracks > > "current allocation" (all malloced minus all freed). > > There is no such C global var. > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/tree/libguile/gc.c?h=ttn-back-in-the-saddle#n210 > > > You have forgotten perhaps that we are trying to figure out how to surf > a change between 1.8 and 2.0, and that "this field" is a 1.8 field? 1.8 is the old stable series, so it's not a great referent in the present tense. Anyway, Guile 2 does not track the number of bytes freed -- only the bytes that are mallocated. Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
