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> Ironically, one of Boehm's use cases is looking for memory leaks. You basically #ifdef Boehm into a test build, and if a GC finds garbage, you know that you didn't free something correctly.

So a "garbage checker"? :) This is interesting, I never really thought about using it as a checking tool.




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