Why are void[] contents marked as having pointers?
BCS
none at anon.com
Sun May 31 14:38:26 PDT 2009
Hello Walter,
> I'm curious what form of data you have that always seem to look like
> valid pointers. There are a couple other options you can pursue -
> moving the gc pool to another location in the address space, or
> changing the alignment of your void[] data so it won't look like
> aligned pointers (the gc won't look for misaligned pointers).
>
Most (but not all) of the cases I can think of where you get false pointers,
re-aligning stuff or moving the heap won't help as the false pointer source
will hit the full address space.
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