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Re: FAQ FOOD! Re: scm_must_malloc and memory leaking?

Greg Harvey <Greg.Harvey@thezone.net> writes:

> This looks much more like the leak detector is not understanding the
> gc than actual memory leaks. For the most part, they're of dubious
> value if you're doing anything besides straight malloc/free things. 

Probably corrent. SCM, when serving as a pointer, is xored by
something. Since most memory detectors work like conservative GC, they
miss /all/ the guile pointers.

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