Re: stack tracing (was: PMC/GC help needed)

2007-08-01 Thread Leopold Toetsch
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 a

stack tracing (was: PMC/GC help needed)

2007-07-31 Thread 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 trac