Stack Manipulation

[Pie Squared]

I've read some about creating garbage collectors (for other languages)
in C, and conservative garbage collectors sometimes manipulate the
program stack to look for pointers.

How would I do it?

Where can I find functions to manipulate/find things out about the
program stack?

Also in a similar vein, how can I dump all the processor registers to
the stack?

I realize this probably isn't cross-platform AT ALL. I would just
appreciate a few pointers on how to do this, especially on Linux/x86
set ups.

Thanks

PieSquared

[Kenny McCormack]

In article <7f**********************************@d4g2000prg.g ooglegroups.com>,
Pie Squared <Pi********@gmail.comwrote:

>I've read some about creating garbage collectors (for other languages)
in C, and conservative garbage collectors sometimes manipulate the
program stack to look for pointers.

How would I do it?

Where can I find functions to manipulate/find things out about the
program stack?

(Beavis & Butthead) He said "stack"!!!

[user923005]

On Mar 3, 3:48*pm, Pie Squared <[e-mail]:

I've read some about creating garbage collectors (for other languages)
in C, and conservative garbage collectors sometimes manipulate the
program stack to look for pointers.

How would I do it?

Where can I find functions to manipulate/find things out about the
program stack?

Also in a similar vein, how can I dump all the processor registers to
the stack?

I realize this probably isn't cross-platform AT ALL. I would just
appreciate a few pointers on how to do this, especially on Linux/x86
set ups.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage...mputer_science)

[Keith Thompson]

Pie Squared <Pi********@gmail.comwrites:
[...]

And... I don't think I understood the, "(Beavis & Butthead) He said
"stack"!!!"...

Don't worry about it. That was written by one of our resident trolls.
Please ignore him. Really.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) <ks***@mib.org>
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