a .NET alternative (GJC et al)

[Florian Weimer]

Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> writes:

> If there *is* a collector, however, the back-end can't optimize *away*
> the stack marking, because the collector gets passed (via the
> global variable) a linked list of all the stack frames, and
> it traverses them.

This won't work in multi-threading environment where the collector
might be completely invisible to the compiler.