gc.zig

The bdwgc Boehm GC garbage coollector packaged for zig.

Usage

const gc = @import("gc");

pub fn main() !void {
    const allocator = gc.bdwgc.allocator();

    var list: std.ArrayListUnmanaged(u8) = .empty;

    try list.appendSlice(allocator, "Hello");
    try list.appendSlice(allocator, " World");

    std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{list.items});
    // the program will exit without memory leaks :D
}

install

1. Add gc to the depency list in build.zig.zon:

zig fetch --save git+https://github.com/johan0A/gc.zig#v0.1.0

1. Config build.zig:

const gc_dep = b.dependency("gc", .{
    .target = target,
    .optimize = optimize,
});

root_module.addImport("gc", gc_dep.module("gc"));