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@@ -58,18 +58,6 @@ a comma-separated list of name=val pairs. Supported names are:
scavenge: scavenge=1 enables debugging mode of heap scavenger.
- wbshadow: setting wbshadow=1 enables a shadow copy of the heap
- used to detect missing write barriers at the next write to a
- given location. If a bug can be detected in this mode it is
- typically easy to understand, since the crash says quite
- clearly what kind of word has missed a write barrier.
- Setting wbshadow=2 checks the shadow copy during garbage
- collection as well. Bugs detected at garbage collection can be
- difficult to understand, because there is no context for what
- the found word means. Typically you have to reproduce the
- problem with allocfreetrace=1 in order to understand the type
- of the badly updated word.
-
gccheckmark: setting gccheckmark=1 enables verification of the
garbage collector's concurrent mark phase by performing a
second mark pass while the world is stopped. If the second