https://github.com/thehxdev/cgc

A simple and tiny garbage collector in C for C
https://github.com/thehxdev/cgc

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A simple and tiny garbage collector in C for C

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/thehxdev/cgc
• Owner: thehxdev
• Created: 2023-07-30T21:15:46.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-11-13T13:34:38.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-14T04:24:18.004Z (2 months ago)
• Language: C
• Size: 3.91 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# CGC

A simple and tiny garbage collector in C for C :)

I wrote it in probably 1 or 1.5 hours so it's not a big deal and not ment to be used

in other projects. It's only a hubby side project to practice how to implement a simple

GC in C programming language with my own understanding of memory and data structures without

reading any paper or documentation about automatic memory management or garbage collectors.

## How it works

It's only a wrapper for `malloc` and `calloc` functions to store allocated

memory chunkes in a doubly-linked-list to keep track of them.

then at the end of `main` function user must call `gc_freeAll` function to

free all of the allocated memory on the Heap.

## Problems

- It only triggers GC at the end of `main` function

- Bad code design with so much duplicated code (maybe solvable with macros)