At 16:33 -0800 2000/01/26, Mark P Jones wrote:
>When consGC is on, Hugs looks on (what it hopes is) the C stack for
>roots into the heap.
What is the C-stack? Specifically, is it the stack that the C-compiler
implements, or is it something that you have implemented yourself.
The thing is that it is possible to get hold of the stack that the C
compiler implements (which is usually the one that the OS implements) for
use with a conservative GC, but this requires normally special knowledge of
how the OS implements it. -- This is how Hans Boehm implements his
conservative GC for use with C/C++.
Hans Aberg
