Re: Traversing the stack frame and identifying "references"

"Unmesh joshi" <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:43:15 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.garbage-collection.general
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Thanks!.

I was also looking for the reference material on techniques of stopping all 
the threads of execution and getting the active stack frames for each 
thread. What are the generally accepted practices for doing this? 
Particularly in Java Virtual Machines?

Thanks,
Unmesh

>From: James Foucar <[email protected]>
>To: Unmesh joshi <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [gclist] Traversing the stack frame and identifying 
>"references"
>Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:40:11 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hello,
>
>Try this paper:
>"Compiler Support for Garbage Collection in a Statically Typed Language"
>by Diwan
>
>It describes the technique of using GC-maps to locate references on the 
>stack.
>
>-Jim
>
>Unmesh joshi <[email protected]> wrote: Hi,
>
>I was looking for the reference material on techniques of stopping all the
>threads of execution and traversing the active stack frames for identifying
>live objects. While I found numerous papers/articles discussing algorithms
>for garbage collections, I am not fiding the ones which also discuss the
>implementation details of garbage collection for some languages (like Java
>or C++).
>
>Thanks,
>Unmesh
>
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