[Mono-dev] Compacting GC

[Miguel de Icaza]

>> MCS     [net_1_1] System.dll
>> **
>> ERROR:sgen-gc.c:3491:mono_gc_alloc_obj: assertion failed: (*p ==  
>> NULL)
>
> Remember when we said that sgen wasn't quite ready?  Here's the proof
> --sgen is asserting while trying to build Mono.Posix.dll.  You've
> built a mono with the sgen GC, it's just not very useful.

The good news for anyone that wanted to hack on SGen is that this is a  
good place to start.

So Mono runtime with SGen does build, now you have to find every  
instance where there is a failure.

Remember that this is not our regular conservative GC, this is a  
moving collector, so data in memory will be moved.   The challenge is  
to find the source of this crash: what caused it?   Memory that was  
moved?   Information that was not pinned and was moved behind the  
unmanaged code knowing?

Miguel.