At 10:06 PM 4/13/2002 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: >At 5:35 PM -0400 4/13/02, Clinton A. Pierce wrote: >>I'm fighting a now-you-see-it now-you-don't kind of bug and I was >>wondering if there's a way to completely turn off garbage collection and >>memory re-use for debugging? > >Yes. The sweepoff and collectoff ops will turn of DOD runs and GC sweeps, >respectively. sweepon and collecton will re-enable them. (They are >attached to the counters, so they nest and you need to match off and on counts) > >Just added the things to CVS, so you'll need to resync to get 'em.
Got 'em and tried them. Some bugs vanished, but others are still there. Hrm. At least I can eliminate some potential sources.
