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John Jannotti <jj@lcs.mit.edu> writes: > > If it's merely tedious to write the code for a dozen architectures, > > somehow I can't believe that it hasn't been done before. Surely > > some other publicly available package must have had to do the same > > thing? If it's not running fast enough, we could steal it.... > > Doesn't the Boehm conservative collector work in much the same way as > the guile collector? My impression is that you just link it into you > C program, so it must be able to determine where the stack is. Yes, the Boehm gc also needs the stack bottom & needs to know which which way the stack grows. It also includes configs/tests for a large number of machines to get/check the stack base. I was about to suggest snarfing up the code from there when I saw your message. -- Harvey J. Stein BFM Financial Research hjstein@bfr.co.il