OCaml GC Debugging and Repair

About

Navigate the complexities of the OCaml garbage collector runtime to diagnose and resolve critical memory management issues. This skill provides deep-dive guidance for debugging segfaults, fixing pointer arithmetic bugs in size-classed pools, and understanding the nuances of OCaml's shared heap and runtime C code. It streamlines the development process by offering specialized build configurations, systematic code analysis strategies for block headers, and comprehensive verification checklists to ensure memory safety and runtime stability.

Key Features

• Strategies for managing block header repurposing and run-length encoded free lists
• 16 GitHub stars
• Systematic analysis patterns for tracing memory corruption in major and minor GC
• Technical guidance for diagnosing pointer arithmetic bugs in size-classed memory pools
• Verification checklists and testsuite command patterns for runtime regression testing
• Optimized build and configuration steps for the OCaml bootstrap process

Use Cases

• Navigating and modifying the OCaml garbage collector's sweeping and allocation code
• Developing and verifying fixes for pointer arithmetic mismatches in memory managers
• Fixing segfaults or memory corruption occurring in the OCaml C runtime