Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2007 00:39 schrieb Bram Geron: > Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > It might be on the stack or just in a CPU register. While we have > > code to mark all possible pointers on the stack, this isn't generally > > true for CPU registers, as that's rather system-dependent. > > > > See also src/cpu_dep.c():trace_system_areas() > > If we can't rely on trace_system_areas to mark C variables, why have it > in the first place? It probably only obscures bugs on other platforms, > making it harder to port.
We certainly can rely on that, *if* it's implemented for all platforms. leo
