Robin asks:
>> Gordon Dakin is suffering a store leak on a POP program for vision
>> that we have been writing.
>> [text deleted]
>> (ii) Are there any tools available to help localise the problem. E.g. one
>> might do a kind of garbage collect analogue to discover how much store
>> was hung on a particular variable.
Steve writes:
> No, nor is it possible, even in principle, for users to write such
> tools. This is a matter of considerable frustration for me. Even C users
> are (these days) supplied with much better tools for reviewing store use.
> Mind you, they have a greater incentive!
Certainly there are difficulties. But I don't think a useful tool is
-impossible-. The problem of course is not unrelated to garbage-collection,
persistence etc. I must go and jump on a what the Rev. Awbry would doubtless
characterise as a female of dubious inclinations - so more later when I have
had a hack on Mr Twinkle Flipflops, aka my 486.
Robin.
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