From: Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>
Date: 2003-07-09T06:05:54+09:00
Subject: Re: rb_gc() and scan stack

On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 03:48:41 +0900, nobu.nokad wrote:

> At Thu, 3 Jul 2003 01:00:35 +0900, Simon Strandgaard wrote:
>> What confuses me is that 'G' is right-most in step 1-6.
>> And that 'G' is left-most in step 7a.
>> This seems odd to me, Is this really correct behavier ?
> 
> It *was* correct.  To be accurate, nothing shouldn't be marked
> in step 2 through 6.  But rb_gc_mark_locations(), which marks
> stack, swaps its arguments when they are out of order.  So
> garbages would possibly be marked.

"swaps its arguments"... I oversaw this. 
About 5 minuts I just realized this, browsing 'gc.c' :-)


Thanks Nobu.

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Simon Strandgaard