On 01/06/2011 07:31 AM, %u wrote:
If you have allocated a large uint[], most likely =C3=ACt will be flagged
NO_SCAN, meaning it has no pointers in it, and the GC will ignore it.
Ah, but the trouble is, no one said that this array has to be in the GC heap! I
could easily have a void[] and a uint[] that both point to non-GC managed
memory.
Or I might even have a uint[] allocated on the stack! How does the GC
distinguish
these, when there's no "attribute" it can mark? (Or does it?!)
It assumes everything on the stack is pointers, at the moment, I believe.
If it's not on the garbage collected heap, it won't scan it unless you
tell it to.
