Re: [boost] portable precise garbage collector for C++

From: Achilleas Margaritis (axilmar_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-17 04:35:06

Larry Evans wrote:
> On 09/16/07 16:56, Achilleas Margaritis wrote:
>> Dear boost developers,
>>
>> You can find a new version of my portable precise C++ garbage collector 
>> in vault/memory.
>>
>> Is any one interested?
> How does this collector determine the location of pointers on the stack
> and within the heap?

I forgot to add that the bit map's pages are marked as belonging to the 
heap if a memory block is dynamically allocated on them.

At collection time, the pointers' bit map is traversed in order to 
locate root pointers; any pages marked as 'heap' are ignored.