Heap allocation and internal pointers

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 14:58:12 -0500, Dmitry Olshansky  
<dmitry.olsh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 20-Jan-2014 23:48, Steven Schveighoffer пишет:

>> I think this is somewhat too general. It can be GC allocated, even
>> GC-array allocated. The GC will not move around your array unexpectedly
>> without updating the pointers.
>
> But a moving collector will happily assume there are no internal  
> pointers when moving and won't update them I bet.

If we have a moving GC, then we must have precise type info on every piece  
of memory that points at the target, otherwise it cannot possibly move  
data unsolicited. Why wouldn't that include the internal pointer?

-Steve