From: Tridib Bandopadhyay Date: 2011-08-02T10:11:15+09:00 Subject: Re: Help in Pointer Hello I got to know from this forum before that the Garbage Collector just scans the stack looking for pointers. So, if we allocate a pointer and hide data behind the pointer the Garbage Collector won't see pointers which aren't on the stack. As I am working on Garbage Collector and want to implement manual memory deallocation so I need to hide data from the garbage collector applying the above technique. Tridib -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.