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Re: Ruby testsuite failures because of pointer mangling on 32-bit ARM?
- From: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
- To: carlos at redhat dot com
- Cc: pinskia at gmail dot com, will dot newton at linaro dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:14:41 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Ruby testsuite failures because of pointer mangling on 32-bit ARM?
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From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:55:01 -0500
> It treats the jmp_buf as an array of VALUE sized pointers that
> it can examine to determine if there are pointers to the heap.
Sounds similar to what any other garbage collector will do, scan
the processes address space looking for pointers.
I'm pretty sure Boehm-GC does something similar, although perhaps
it scans the entire process stack from the point in which it is
called instead of using jmpbuf's to delineate spans of stack
areas like Ruby does.