Re: MPS: staticpro everything

[Gerd Möllmann]

Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com> writes:

>> What is "a root" in this context?  I though only roots of Lisp objects
>> are alluded to by this term, and font_driver_list is not a Lisp
>> object.
>
> I think it means this: A root holds a reference to a MPS managed object
> but the cell where the reference is stored, is itself not managed my
> MPS.

In the old GC, staticvec, lisp_sym and others are roots. I think one
could say that all the special mark_xy methods (specpdl, bc stack, ...)
are also examples of roots.