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Subject: ports/22227: boehm-gc don't work correctly in leak detection mode.
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>Number:         22227
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       boehm-gc don't work correctly in leak detection mode.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 22 18:00:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Soonmyung Hong
>Release:        3.5-STABLE
>Organization:
Innovay Inc.
>Environment:
FreeBSD alfheim.innovay.com 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE #3: Wed Jul 26 19:37:39 KST 2000     root@alfheim.innovay.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/ALFHEIM  i386
>Description:
"Boehm, Hans" wrote:
> A more serious problem is that I believe 5.0alpha3 through the
> current releases don't work correctly in leak detection mode. 
> (This has been verified for 5.2.  The offending change was
> introduced in 5.0 alpha3.)
> They generate spurious leak reports.  The easiest work-around is
> probably to build 5.2 with EAGER_SWEEP defined.  This will be
> fixed in the next release.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
upgrade port to 5.2 or later.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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