From: Geert Fannes <Geert.Fannes@...>
Date: 2005-08-23T23:19:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Very strange GC behaviour

Can these registers be cleared without doing much damage before doing
the garbage collection, thus providing a less conservative GC.start
function (perhaps with a parameter true or false for easy selection)? I
found a function rb_gc_start in gc.c. I'm guessing this can best be done
before the rb_gc call. Or are things more complicated as they seem...

The Garbage Collector is conservative. If the address of an object
stays in some register, or even some calculation filled a register
with a number that happens to equal the address, the pointed-to object
will not be gc'ed.

regards,

Brian

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