neilparikh / gccollect

A garbage collector for C

GCcollect

A mark and sweep garbage collector in/for C.

Usage

On a high level:

• use GCmalloc and GCfree to allocate and free memory you want garbage collected
• register all pointers that point to memory allocated using GCmalloc
• call GCcollect to trigger a garbage collection. This will trigger a GC pause, as the collector uses mark and sweep.
• call GCFreeAll at the end of your program so the collector can do some cleanup

See gccollect.h for the specific API.