references to objects

Jason Baker jbaker at cs.utah.edu
Mon Jul 10 09:45:40 PDT 2000


"Johan Andersson" <anderssj at tcd.ie> writes:

> Where does Kaffe store its references to objects? There must be some =
> object table but I can't find it.
> Does anyone know where it is?

Global references (pointers to gc roots) are stored in a hashtable
maintained in gcRefs.c.  Since thread stacks are walked
conservatively, local references are simply stored on the stack.

Jason


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