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Re: garbage collectors



>Perhaps, for the paranoid (or bitten), there could be a call that
>designates a certain area of the stack as _not_ containing any
>pointers into the heap.

Only the stack is scanned conservatively.  Precise techniques are used
everywhere else.  If you want to keep memory from being scanned
conservatively, allocate it with malloc.