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> This is a compiler we're talking about. Having a "deal with it" attitude is not a good thing to have. If there's a kernel bug that causes a crash would you also say "deal with it" or would you ask the creators to fix it?

It's not a bug. It's undefined behaviour for a compiler intrinsic.

> This is part of the code for the conservative garbage collector which is supposed to scan the stack for pointers. If you know a better way to do that, by all means let's hear it.

Keep two heaps. A long life heap and short life heap that is essentially a stack. http://engineering.twitter.com/2011/03/building-faster-ruby-...

Lua uses a struct called lua_State for this. http://www.lua.org/source/5.2/lstate.h.html



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