On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 23:17:41 +0100 eskimo <jfanati...@gmx.at> wrote: > Hey party people! > > What is the current state? Is it enough to store a pointer in a > ptrdiff_t variable instead of a pointer for the GC to ignore it or is > my current trick of simply inverting its value required? >
I'm not sure I understand why you would hide a pointer from the GC. > Are there memory models in use > where the inverted pointer value might also be in GC memory? > Yes, that can happen in 32-bit.