status of gcj's boehm collector?

Tue Dec 4 21:44:00 GMT 2001

"Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm@hp.com> writes:
> There are system calls other than read that share this problem. The
> most annoying one is probably ioctl, since it's not easy to predict
> where it's going to write.

But would ioctl ever write a pointer value to the heap?
If all it ever writes is non-pointer data (even if it possibly
overwrites a pointer with a nonpointer value), then you can get away
with not using the write-barrier, as long as you periodically perform
a full heap scan.
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