From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-10-08T20:44:47+09:00
Subject: Re: GC and the stack

Hi,

At Wed, 8 Oct 2003 20:08:13 +0900,
Thomas Sondergaard wrote:
> How does the ruby gc recognize what on the stack is a reference to a ruby
> object? The types on and layout of the values in a particular stack frame is
> not available at runtime is it?

By whether a value points an object in the slots.  See
gc.c:is_pointer_to_heap().

-- 
Nobu Nakada