[Haskell-cafe] Simple question about blackholing

[Kei Davis]

Hello,

By all accounts I've found a thunk is blackholed by replacing its header 
with a (the) blackhole code pointer (or blackhole info pointer in the 
unregisterized case).  My simple-minded question is how garbage 
collection can take place given that the layout of the payload is lost.  
Surely not a custom blackhole for each (statically defined) thunk?  A 
list of blackholes maintained somewhere that the GC knows about?

Thanks for any insight!

Kei

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Kei Davis
Applied Computer Science Group CCS-7, Mail Stop B287
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM 87545, U.S.A.

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