From: Johann Hibschman <johann@...>
Date: 2001-12-29T00:15:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29534] Re: GC and values in extensions

>>>>> "matz" == Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> writes:

    matz> Ruby's GC is "conservative" so that they are protected as
    matz> long as they live.  So you don't have to worry about local
    matz> variable protection.

Can the conservative GC find objects (i.e. stuctures with VALUEs for
slots) that are heap-allocated?  As I understand it, it simply goes
through the call stack looking for Ruby objects, which would miss any
objects on the heap.

If I'm wrong, hurrah, but if I'm right, how can I handle objects on
the heap?

--Johann