[Vm-dev] Why the context become a root

[tim Rowledge]

On 19-Nov-07, at 10:23 AM, Mathieu Suen wrote:

> Ok so IIRC adding object into the root table that do not contain  
> young object do not bug the system.
True - we hope!
>
> but every object that contain young object should be inside this  
> table otherwise the gc crash?
Not quite - *old* objects that probably contain young objects need to  
be in the list, which the beRootIfOld: code should hopefully make  
clear. Young objects don't need to be in the root table because they  
get scanned anyway.

tim
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