On 04/01/2005 08:21 AM, Larry Evans wrote:
On 04/01/2005 07:35 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
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To be fair to the Boehm gc, though: it isn't inherently a conservative
collector, but will also do precise gc.
Wouldn't this require a GC_descr as defined here:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/gc_source/gc_typedh.txt
for each data structure containing a pointer to the heap?
And even then, it wouldn't be totally precise because the stack would
still have to be scanned conservatively to locate heap pointers.
