Re: Register Allocators and Garbage Collectors

"Sandeep Dutta" <niktechc@niktech.com>
Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:35:00 -0700

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From: "Sandeep Dutta" <niktechc@niktech.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:35:00 -0700
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 08-09-052
Keywords: GC
Posted-Date: 15 Sep 2008 16:36:54 EDT

Hi Ori,


A typical garbage collector would "scan" the stack of all
active processes looking for values that "might be" pointers.
If it finds something that looks like a pointer, it will mark
the "memory" as referenced. This will lead some false positives
ofcourse.


Hope that helps.


Sandeep


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