On Dec 7, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Alexei Sholik <[email protected]> wrote:
> The garbage collector scans the C stack. > > Hm, let me make sure I understand this correctly. > ... > I'm asking because I've never previously dealt with a library that scans the > host application's stack. So it sounds pretty incredible to me. Every JSC vm will do a full conservative scan of the in use portion of the stack for every thread in your application whenever it needs to GC. Anything that looks like it could be a pointer to a gc value is treated as though it is _definitely_ a GC value and marked accordingly. > > Thanks! > > > > On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Geoffrey Garen <[email protected]> wrote: > > At this point, the code is not inside the JS stack, so is it possible for > > an object to be collected between the calls to JSObjectMake and > > JSObjectCallAsFunction? > > The garbage collector scans the C stack. > > Geoff > > > > -- > Best regards > Alexei Sholik > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
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