Re: [Valgrind-users] Memcheck with Jikes RVM

[Eliot M. <mo...@cs...>]

On 7/8/2014 3:47 PM, Karl Cronburg wrote:
> On 07/08/2014 02:48 PM, Philippe Waroquiers wrote:
>> On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 14:39 -0400, Eliot Moss wrote:
>>> On 7/8/2014 2:04 PM, Philippe Waroquiers wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 03:49 -0400, Karl Cronburg wrote:

> We're interested in using malloc/free client requests to see if we can
> get memcheck to tell us when the garbage collector is handling its'
> own memory incorrectly.

That sounds like a radical change to Jikes RVM.  At present it
doesn't really use malloc/free.  It mmaps big chunks and manages
them all itself, both for the system (i.e., outside of the garbage
collected universe) and for the GC'ed heap.

Best wishes -- EM