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| author | Vlad Brezae <brezaevlad@gmail.com> | 2019-09-11 04:54:07 +0300 |
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| committer | Larry Ewing <lewing@microsoft.com> | 2019-09-11 04:54:07 +0300 |
| commit | f1a57de62128506c1f72ddc65ad6bafe7e24504b (patch) | |
| tree | 1872f19583b024f76936f0a10be026bb0305202b /docs | |
| parent | a0ed95fc98ccbf66a910152ddb9f84e7c12503e4 (diff) | |
[docs] Improve sgen write barrier documentation (#16761)
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/sources/mono-api-gc.html | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/sources/mono-api-gc.html b/docs/sources/mono-api-gc.html index cddef0364cb..be5837eedc3 100644 --- a/docs/sources/mono-api-gc.html +++ b/docs/sources/mono-api-gc.html @@ -109,6 +109,12 @@ typedef struct { <h3>Write Barriers</h3> + <p>SGen is a concurrent and generational GC, features which require + tracking changes to the state of the heap. This is achieved through + write barriers. Whenever native code is changing the state of the + heap by storing references into another managed object, it needs to + do it using this write barrier API. + <h4><a name="api:mono_gc_wbarrier_arrayref_copy">mono_gc_wbarrier_arrayref_copy</a></h4> <h4><a name="api:mono_gc_wbarrier_generic_nostore">mono_gc_wbarrier_generic_nostore</a></h4> <h4><a name="api:mono_gc_wbarrier_generic_store">mono_gc_wbarrier_generic_store</a></h4> |