Merge pull request #57 from Unity-Technologies/disable-automatic-collection-api

Add GC_set_disable_automatic_collection API to disable automatic peri…

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/alloc.c b/alloc.c
index c3562bae..f3d66540 100644
--- a/alloc.c
+++ b/alloc.c
@@ -367,6 +367,12 @@ STATIC void GC_clear_a_few_frames(void)
 /* limits used by blacklisting.                                         */
 STATIC word GC_collect_at_heapsize = (word)(-1);
 STATIC GC_bool GC_should_start_incremental_collection = FALSE;
+STATIC GC_bool GC_disable_automatic_collection = FALSE;
+
+GC_API void GC_set_disable_automatic_collection(GC_bool disable)
+{
+  GC_disable_automatic_collection = disable;
+}
 
 GC_API void GC_start_incremental_collection()
 {
@@ -391,6 +397,8 @@ GC_INNER GC_bool GC_should_collect(void)
       GC_should_start_incremental_collection = FALSE;
       return TRUE;
     }
+    if (GC_disable_automatic_collection)
+      return FALSE;
     return(GC_adj_bytes_allocd() >= last_min_bytes_allocd
            || GC_heapsize >= GC_collect_at_heapsize);
 }
diff --git a/include/gc.h b/include/gc.h
index 3a4501ae..3d10a9a4 100644
--- a/include/gc.h
+++ b/include/gc.h
@@ -2038,6 +2038,7 @@ GC_API void GC_CALL GC_start_world_external(void);
 
 GC_API void GC_CALL GC_disable_incremental(void);
 GC_API void GC_CALL GC_start_incremental_collection (void);
+GC_API void GC_CALL GC_set_disable_automatic_collection(int);
 
 /* APIs for getting access to raw GC heap */
 /* These are NOT thread safe, so should be called with GC lock held */