Re: Any way of dumping strings?

[Óscar Fuentes]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
>> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2021 19:03:06 +0200
>> 
>> Is there a method for dumping or displaying those strings or vectors?
>
> Set a GDB breakpoint in mark_vectorlike, with commands that dump each
> vector, then trigger GC?

I was hoping for something that could show at least thousands of
instances. Going one by one would be extremely time-consuming and
potentially deceptive.

Does Emacs zero-initialize memory when it is garbage-collected? Even if
it doesn't, maybe it is enough to dump the whole image to a file. Some
part would be gc-ed data, but a comparatively small part among all the
rest of hundreds of MB.