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Garbage collection and memory leak detection for C and C++

 The Boehm-Weiser garbage collection package, for C and C++ -
garbage collection and memory leak detection libraries.

A garbage collector is something which automatically frees malloc'd
memory for you by working out what parts of memory your program
no longer has pointers to.  As a result, garbage collectors can also
inform you of memory leaks (if they find memory they can free, it means
you have lost all of your pointers to it, but you didn't free it).

This package has two libraries and some include files:
libgc.a - a garbage collection library, replaces malloc/free/new/delete/etc
    with versions that do automatic garbage collection
libleak.a - a leak detection library, which is just libgc.a compiled with
    different switches.

C programs may be linked against either of these, and should run (with
GC or leak detection) without change.  C++ programs must include a header
to use garbage collection, though leak detection should work without
such source code modifications.  See the man page and header files.

-- Mike McGaughey 
ps: garbage collection is addictive. 

boehm-gc history

v. 1.54
date: 2007/02/05 22:12:46;  author: stas;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
- Use PTHREAD_LIBS.

Submitted by:	nork

v. 1.53
date: 2007/02/01 02:41:24;  author: kris;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -0
Use libtool port instead of included version to avoid objformat a.out botch

v. 1.52
date: 2006/09/20 13:33:14;  author: stas;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -7
 - Update to 6.8
 - Replace some obsoleted variables
 - Take maintainership

ChangeLog: it's mainly bugfix release

Approved by:	sem (mentor)

v. 1.51
date: 2006/09/17 08:57:20;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Drop maintainership.

v. 1.50
date: 2006/05/04 21:40:24;  author: edwin;  state: Exp;  lines: +0 -1
Remove USE_REINPLACE from all categories starting with D

v. 1.49
date: 2006/02/23 10:35:30;  author: ade;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -2
Conversion to a single libtool environment.

Approved by:	portmgr (kris)

v. 1.48
date: 2005/11/15 06:48:35;  author: ade;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Mass-conversion to the USE_AUTOTOOLS New World Order.  The code present
in bsd.autotools.mk essentially makes this a no-op given that all the
old variables set a USE_AUTOTOOLS_COMPAT variable, which is parsed in
exactly the same way as USE_AUTOTOOLS itself.

Moreover, USE_AUTOTOOLS has already been extensively tested by the GNOME
team -- all GNOME 2.12.x ports use it.

Preliminary documentation can be found at:
	http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ade/autotools.txt

which is in the process of being SGMLized before introduction into the
Porters Handbook.

Light blue touch-paper.  Run.

v. 1.47
date: 2005/11/13 13:28:24;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Remove redundant gc:: from gc_cpp.h for gcc41.

Submitted by:	"Arno J. Klaassen" 

v. 1.46
date: 2005/10/23 00:01:35;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -1
Fix build error on amd64 with THREADING option.

PR:		ports/87484
Submitted by:	Vasil Dimov 

v. 1.45
date: 2005/10/10 13:06:07;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +7 -0
Link pthread library when WITH_THREADING is defined.

Pointed out by:	Nicola Vitale 

v. 1.44
date: 2005/10/08 11:43:40;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Update to 6.6.

v. 1.43
date: 2005/07/15 19:14:36;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -4
Remove !defined(WITHOUT_*) tests to correct handling of WITH_* knobs
when they are defined from command line and BATCH is defined.

PR:		ports/83430
Submitted by:	Sean Farley 

v. 1.42
date: 2005/06/29 16:29:45;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Add arm support.

Submitted by:	cognet

v. 1.41
date: 2005/06/26 17:24:26;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Update to 6.5.

Submitted by:	lioux

v. 1.40
date: 2005/03/19 16:44:02;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Fix build on powerpc.

PR:		ports/78577
Submitted by:	Martin Minkus 

v. 1.39
date: 2004/12/29 15:17:41;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -2
Update to 6.4.

v. 1.38
date: 2004/12/16 18:39:09;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -0
Fix breakage on amd64.

v. 1.37
date: 2004/11/17 15:52:40;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Remove BROKEN mark for sparc64.

Submitted by:	Hannes Mehnert 

v. 1.36
date: 2004/11/08 16:33:04;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -2
- Update to 6.3.
- Get to work on sparc. [1]
- Fix warnings from gc_cpp.h. [2]

Submitted by:	Hannes Mehnert  [1], des [2]

v. 1.35
date: 2004/07/09 17:42:07;  author: marcus;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Apply a big libtool patch to allow porters to use the libtool installed by
the libtoolX ports instead of the one included with each port.  Ports that
set USE_LIBTOOL_VER=X will now use the ports version of libtool instead of
the included version.  To restore previous behavior, use the new macro,
USE_INC_LIBTOOL_VER.  Both macros accept the same argument: a libtool version.

For example, to use the ports version of libtool-1.5, add the following to
your Makefile:

USE_LIBTOOL_VER=        15

To use the included version of libtool with extra hacks provided by
libtool-1.5, add the following to your Makefile:

USE_INC_LIBTOOL_VER=    15

With this change, ports that had to add additional libtool hacks to prevent
.la files from being installed or to fix certain threading issues can now
delete those hacks (after appropriate testing, of course).

PR:		63944
Based on work by:eik and marcus
Approved by:	ade (autotools maintainer)
Tested by:	kris on pointyhat
Bound to be hidden problems:	You bet

v. 1.34
date: 2004/06/13 14:28:58;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Turn off PARALLEL_MARK option in default config.

v. 1.33
date: 2004/05/27 14:12:49;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +14 -12
Use "on" and "off" instead of "yes" and "no" in OPTIONS. [1]
Check WITHOUT_* knobs. [2]
Use USE_GNOME=lthack.
Fix PKGNAMESUFFIX recursion.

Submitted by:	kris [1] [2]

v. 1.32
date: 2004/05/24 14:54:56;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +26 -3
Add four knobs (WITH_THREADING, WITH_PARALLEL_MARK, WITH_REDIRECT and WITH_FULLDEBUG).
Use OPTIONS.
Fix a bug in leak detection.

Submitted by:	green

v. 1.31
date: 2004/05/05 12:47:25;  author: arved;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Fix boehm-gc on amd64.

Tested with:	w3m
Obtained from:	NetBSD (via Marc Recht )

v. 1.30
date: 2004/03/14 06:16:12;  author: ade;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Whoa there, boy, that's a mighty big commit y'all have there...

Begin autotools sanitization sequence by requiring ports to explicitly
specify which version of {libtool,autoconf,automake} they need, erasing
the concept of a "system default".

For ports-in-waiting:

	USE_LIBTOOL=YES		->	USE_LIBTOOL_VER=13
	USE_AUTOCONF=YES	->	USE_AUTOCONF_VER=213
	USE_AUTOMAKE=YES	->	USE_AUTOMAKE_VER=14

Ports attempting to use the old style system after June 1st 2004 will be
sorely disappointed.

v. 1.29
date: 2004/03/05 12:14:38;  author: kris;  state: Exp;  lines: +7 -1
BROKEN on !i386 and !alpha: Does not compile

v. 1.28
date: 2003/07/06 05:59:13;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Update to 6.2.

v. 1.27
date: 2003/06/15 15:20:02;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -2
Update to 6.2alpha6.

v. 1.26
date: 2003/05/05 13:42:53;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Link libstdc++ to unbreak build of the ports that depend on boehm-gc.

Reported by:	jmallett and kris

v. 1.25
date: 2003/04/30 12:56:46;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -1
Install gc_cpp.h and gc_allocator.h to the correct location.

Submitted by:	des

v. 1.24
date: 2003/04/20 13:57:29;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -4
Update to 6.2alpha4.

v. 1.23
date: 2003/02/25 12:45:06;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -3
Update to 6.2alpha3.

v. 1.22
date: 2003/02/22 14:25:34;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -0
De-pkg-comment.

v. 1.21
date: 2003/01/04 16:48:55;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -0
1 Install gc_backptr.h.
2 Use libtool.

Submitted by:	Søren Vrist  [1], sobomax [2]

v. 1.20
date: 2002/11/17 14:25:07;  author: nobutaka;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -6
Update to 6.1.
Get rid of ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386.
Take maintainership.

v. 1.19
date: 2002/11/07 03:10:44;  author: adamw;  state: Exp;  lines: +0 -2
Fix PORTCOMMENTs that were killing INDEX builds.

105 pointy hats to:	me
Approved by:		pat

v. 1.18
date: 2002/11/06 22:44:22;  author: adamw;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -0
Use PORTCOMMENT in the Makefile, and whack the pkg-comment.

Approved by:	pat

v. 1.17
date: 2002/06/25 18:36:36;  author: ijliao;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -1
Replace ${PERL} with ${REINPLACE_CMD}

PR:		39842
Submitted by:	Oliver Braun 

v. 1.16
date: 2002/02/02 04:48:26;  author: pat;  state: Exp;  lines: +5 -1
Make prefix safe.

PR:		34528
Submitted by:	Kazutoshi Kubota 

v. 1.15
date: 2001/10/11 12:08:58;  author: ijliao;  state: Exp;  lines: +11 -10
Update devel/boehm-gc port to 6.0.
Since I do not know whether non-i386 platforms are supported,
ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386 is remained in Makefile.

Changes from previous version:
* Install shared library.
* Do not create and install libleak.
  Leak detection mode can be initiated at run-time by setting GC_find_leak.

PR:		31125
Submitted by:	MANTANI Nobutaka 

v. 1.14
date: 2001/04/02 08:30:37;  author: mharo;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -3
remove deprecated fetch options from FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS

v. 1.13
date: 2001/01/10 14:02:12;  author: sf;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -1
unbreak for -CURRENT.

v. 1.12
date: 2001/01/03 20:17:06;  author: sf;  state: Exp;  lines: +7 -7
update to 5.3.

PR:		21774
Submitted by:	Mikhail Teterin 

maintainer is unreachable, temporarily?

Recipient address: mmcg@cs.monash.edu.au
Reason: Remote SMTP server has rejected address
Diagnostic code: smtp;550 ... User unknown
Remote system: dns;mail2.csse.monash.edu.au (TCP|130.194.1.8|4557|130.194.226.190|25)

v. 1.11
date: 2000/04/30 19:13:48;  author: steve;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -1
Mark as being only i386.

PR:		18237
Submitted by:	Christian Weisgerber 

v. 1.10
date: 2000/04/11 21:27:12;  author: mharo;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -4
PORTNAME/PORTVERSION update

v. 1.9
date: 2000/04/01 04:44:03;  author: mharo;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -3
update to gc5.0alpha4.

PR:		17456
Submitted by:	nnd@mail.nsk.ru

v. 1.8
date: 1999/11/01 00:42:52;  author: steve;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -5
Update to version 5.0a3.

PR:		14573
Submitted by:	MANTANI Nobutaka 

v. 1.7
date: 1999/08/25 05:47:27;  author: obrien;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Change Id->FreeBSD.

v. 1.6
date: 1999/08/01 03:02:58;  author: steve;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -3
Update to version 4.14.

PR:		12762
Submitted by:	Aaron Smith 

v. 1.5
date: 1999/06/12 21:14:30;  author: fenner;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -3
Fix URL at sgi.com .  Remove ftp.parc.xerox.com; it is no longer being
 updated.

v. 1.4
date: 1999/01/10 20:12:06;  author: steve;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Unbreak for ELF.  Also add FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS=-b so we can get
the distfile.

Submitted by:	Faried Nawaz 

v. 1.3
date: 1998/10/12 15:47:43;  author: jseger;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -1
Mark BROKEN for ELF:
===>  Installing for boehm-gc-4.12
/bin/cp fbsd-libgc.a libgc.a
/bin/cp: fbsd-libgc.a: No such file or directory
*** Error code 1

v. 1.2
date: 1998/04/20 11:53:25;  author: obrien;  state: Exp;  lines: +5 -4
Upgrade to version 4.12

v. 1.1
date: 1996/11/16 01:51:25;  author: jdp;  state: Exp;
New port "boehm-gc".  It is a drop-in garbage collector for C and C++
programs.

Submitted by:	Mike McGaughey 
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