[M3devel] init_offset?

[Dragiša Durić]

We don't'.

Any pointer references on stack and in registers are recognized as bit patterns during collection and conservatively kept in place. (I think it is the notion used:).

So, no need to "volatilize" anything explicitly.

IMO :)

On Nov 7, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Jay K wrote:

> Should we maybe make all traced pointers volatile?
>  Or at least stores to them?
>   I know we have a compacting garbage collector.
>   If it moves a pointer.. it updates any instance of that value seen on the stack?
>   (and I know, we endeavor to "flush" registers when paused for gc, so that
>   stack suffices and no need to worry further about registers, except on NT386
>   where it is a little different, we can get/set the registers of the paused thread)