Python 2.0

[Yukihiro Matsumoto]

adjih at technologist.com writes:

|  Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz at netlab.co.jp> wrote:
|> You don't have to know stack address to implement mark-sweep register,
|> unless you want to make it conservative.  The mark-sweep GC can be
|> written in ANSI-C portable.
|
|But then this can break Python C modules, because references are held
|from the C stack.

In case you abandon ref counting, yes.  But with the method like which
described by Guido in <5laeu8zmza.fsf at eric.cnri.reston.va.us>, you
still don't have to peep in C stack, I think.

						matz.