From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Alin Soare <as1789@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: please help about garbage collector.
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:15:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsjyfpy1q.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikR4t--NezfqyaPEtAiW99QMZKdhv0oFGO58t_i@mail.gmail.com> (Alin Soare's message of "Thu, 2 Dec 2010 17:49:21 +0200")
>> > Could you explain me what kind of Lisp Objects are keps on the stack ?
>> Anything in automatic varables that the compiler puts there.
> How can you detect that at a given address on the stack there is a lisp
> object, and not something else ?
You can't, but we do it anyway. It's called "conservative stack scanning".
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-02 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-02 9:10 please help about garbage collector alin soare
2010-12-02 15:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-12-02 15:49 ` Alin Soare
2010-12-02 16:00 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-12-03 7:27 ` Alin Soare
2010-12-02 23:15 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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