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| author | Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> | 2021-04-26 18:33:46 -0700 |
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| committer | Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> | 2021-04-26 18:33:46 -0700 |
| commit | 9092bfb390048ad3355dfd94d796ce48d4249180 (patch) | |
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doc: document --free-all
* txr.1: the --free-all command line option appeared in TXR
144 in 2016, but was never documented.
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@@ -965,6 +965,15 @@ example, objects which have been reclaimed by the garbage collector are marked as inaccessible, and marked as uninitialized when they are allocated again. +.coIP --free-all +This option specifies that all memory allocated by \*(TX should be freed upon +normal termination. This behavior is useful for debugging memory leaks. +An accurate leak detection tool, such as the one built into Valgrind, +should report zero leaked or still reachable memory if +.code --free-all +has been used and \*(TX has terminated normally. +that indicates either a leak in \*(TX, a leak or global object retention +in a platform library, or else a a leak introduced due to misuse of FFI. .coIP --dv-regex If this option is used, then regular expressions are all treated using the derivative-based back-end. The NFA-based regex implementation is disabled. |