Patch: gcj ggc patch

[law@redhat.com]

In message <20020307113119.A29155@disaster.basement.lan>, Phil Edwards writes:
 > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:41:34AM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
 > > I'm thinking more toward geoffk's PCH stuff in which marks
 > > serve the dual purpose of GC and swizzling for export.
 >                                    ^^^^^^^^^
 > Is that a technical term?  :-)
Yes :-)  It's also commonly referred to as "pickling" or "serialization".

Basically it's taking a data structure with pointers and other data items
and putting it into a form that can be stored, then read back in later
potentially with everything living at different addresses.

jeff