[Gcl-devel] Re: [Fwd: Uninitialized stack gaps and conservative garbage collection]

[Raymond Toy]

Camm Maguire wrote:
> Raymond Toy writes:
>
> > On the sparc port, this area can be zeroed out with appropriate
> > optimization settings.  I ran some tests using Eric Marsden's
> > cl-bench.   If the stack is always cleared, the cost of some
> > benchmarks go up, but some go down, because the cost of GC is
> > decreased.  (The benchmarks include GC time.)
>
>
> Thanks for the tip -- does this use gcc, and if so, what is the

You know, of course, that CMUCL is a native compiler that doesn't use 
gcc.  I hand-wrote the assembly code to clear the stack area. :-)

Ray