[kaffe] [newbie] gc implementation in kaffe

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siddharth karandikar wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was going through the code of boehm-gc ... but i am not getting the 
> big picture of how it is implemeted in kaffe
> ... lets say if i want to do some modifications to the GC behaviour ... 
> i need to know the exact data structures which are getting used.
> 
> so, can anyboby give me some information on these lines .. ?

The gc source code in essentially split in several levels:
kaffe/kaffevm/gc*.[ch] : gc interface & helper functions
kaffe/kaffevm/boehm-gc/gc*.[ch] : boehm-gc binding for kaffe
kaffe/kaffevm/boehm-gc/boehm/ : boehm gc.

cheers,
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