On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 13:53:10 UTC, ketmar wrote:
cat $subj | sed -r 's/^Are (.+) (gc.+)\?$/\1 are \2./'
lol nice answerso yeah they are scanned for pointers just like anything else (meaning if they contain no pointers they are not scanned!) but remember globals never go out of scope so things referenced in them will not be collected until end of program run (if even then)