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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.
> 
That convinces me.  Put that suggestion in the documentation somewhere,
and anyone who worries about the problem for five minutes more is crazy.

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     --Keith

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