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pthreads and conservative garbage collection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Fiterman)
Mon Nov 11 16:34:59 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 14:53:53 +0000
To: pthreads@MIT.EDU
From: Charles Fiterman <cef@geode.geodesic.com>
I'm new to this group and have a problem.
We have a conservative garbage collector and already have
NT threads and solaris threads versions. I am looking at
porting it to pthreads.
I need to be able to stop and restart all tasks but one.
I would like to discover where the stack top and bottom
are for each thread so I can only scan the active area.
We assume that anything which looks like a pointer is
a pointer so we don't need to know the format of the
stack etc but we do much better if we can limit our
scan to the active area.
Charles Fiterman Geodesic Systems
Phone 312-728-7196 4745 N. Ravenswood Suite 111
Fax 312-728-6096 Chicago Il 60015
A computer language without garbage collection is
like a city without garbage collection.
