From: Tridib Bandopadhyay <lists@...>
Date: 2012-09-07T00:36:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's Mark mechanism

Eric Hodel wrote in post #1074857:
> On Sep 5, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Tridib Bandopadhyay <lists@ruby-forum.com>
> wrote:
>> After doing one mark cycle how GC determines which slots are reachable?.
>> Does they maintain any database for that?
>
> The GC walks the pointers between objects to determine reachability.  It
> starts from Object (including constants, methods, etc.), the C stack and
> the global variables.

Yes I have a literature stating exactly what you said. But can anyone 
tell me in code level where and in which file I can see GC checks for 
these objects?

Thanks

Tridib

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