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Re: please help about garbage collector.


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: please help about garbage collector.
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:15:06 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> > Could you explain me what kind of Lisp Objects are keps on the stack ?
>> Anything in automatic varables that the compiler puts there.
> How can you detect that at a given address on the stack there is a lisp
> object, and not something else ?

You can't, but we do it anyway.  It's called "conservative stack scanning".


        Stefan



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