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1libgcroots
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4About
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7This library abstracts architecture-dependent part of garbage collector
8roots acquisition such as register windows of SPARC and register stack
9backing store of IA-64. Main part of the code is based on Boehm GC 7.0.
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11With this library, you can easily write your own garbage collector such as
12for small footprint, some application-specific optimizations, just learning
13or to test experimental ideas.
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15See this page for latest information.
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17 http://code.google.com/p/sigscheme/wiki/libgcroots
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20Implementation Status
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23This version only supports non-threaded execution contexts started with
24GCROOTS_call_with_gc_ready_stack(). i.e. Entire stack is not scanned at
25mark phase.
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27Since SigScheme the main application of this library does not need both
28threading and scanning entire stack based on system-dependent absolute
29stack bottom, I don't have a plan to support these features. If you need
30them, please port the appropriate codes from Boehm GC. I would like to
31merge it.
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34Author
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37YAMAMOTO Kengo / YamaKen <yamaken AT bp.iij4u.or.jp>
38FAMILY Given / Nick
39http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_name
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42Thanks
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45Hans-J. Boehm and all authors of Boehm GC for the useful codes.
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47Tanaka Akira for letting me realize about the GC problem through the
48presentation at Binary 2.0 Conference 2006.
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