Re: Recognising pointers during garbage collection?

        Joachim Durchholz wrote:
        >> I'm not sure whether the above list is exhaustive; if anybody
        >> has interesting alternatives, please let the list know :-)


= Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@knm.org.pl> writes:


        Marcin> I'm implementing a garbage collector where the first word
        Marcin> of every object representation is a pointer to an object
        Marcin> description, and it stores among other things an address
        Marcin> of a function which marks pointers inside the object (two
        Marcin> functions really, for two generations).




For information, this is exactly the simplest way to use Qish, as
illustrated in http://www.starynkevitch.net/Basile/qishintro.html;
Qish is an opensource (LGPL) precise GC for and in C (provided you
follow a specific coding style in C).


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