Re: About void *gc_descr in MonoVTable

Paolo Molaro <[email protected]> Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:11:40 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.mono.garbage-collection
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 07/21/03 Fernando Diaz wrote:
> Hi guys. Anybody knows what is the use of the field void *gc_descr in
> the MonoVTable struct?.

It's a GC descriptor, check mono_class_compute_gc_descriptor() in
object.c. It's used to tell the Boehm GC which fields in an object
are object references that need to be GC-tracked.

lupus

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