[Vm-dev] Re: [squeak-dev] Image Segment semantics and weakness

[Andres Valloud]

Are you saying that, for the purpose of tracing, the segment roots 
behave like ephemeron key slots?

On 10/19/14 18:01 , Eliot Miranda wrote:
> The segment always includes the segment roots.  Except for the roots,
> objects are excluded from the segment that are also reachable form the
> roots of the system (the /system roots/, effectively the root
> environment, Smalltalk, and the stack of the current process).