Apparent problem with GC not collecting on Windows

[thedeemon]

On Saturday, 1 December 2012 at 12:55:19 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
wrote:
> It should help because:
> 1) Each allocation happens in a new stack frame thus the 
> pointer is overwritten each time.

To probably the same stinky value (a false pointer).

> 2) Precise heap scanning helps this case because it greatly 
> reduces the amount of false pointers (note it's not the stack 
> variables that hold these allocations in place)

I'm pretty sure in this case the false pointers are indeed in 
stack or data segment, not in the heap. Data arrays must be 
allocated with NO_SCAN flag so they're not scanned for pointers.