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Finding cycles and garbage, was( RE: Python Productivity over C++)

Neil Schemenauer nascheme at enme.ucalgary.ca
Fri Jun 9 12:36:44 EDT 2000 
Mike Fletcher <mfletch at tpresence.com> wrote:
>Hmm, Neil's patch doesn't seem to be compatible with Stackless?

I had ported a patch a few months ago.  The current patch will
not apply without some work.

>I'm looking for something lower-level, like the VC++ feature
>where, at the end of the run, the debugger says "hey, as I was
>doing shutdown, I noticed that the following objects (including
>strings, floats, etceteras) were still in memory, that's
>probably not what you wanted".

Py_TRACE_REFS is what you want.  It should be available in
stackless too.  Look in Include/object.h.

    Neil
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