As I know static fields (along with Threads, local variables and method arguments, JNI references) act as GC roots. I cannot provide a link that would confirm this, but I have read a lot of articl...

The heap memory is garbage collected in Java. Is the stack garbage collected as well? How is stack memory reclaimed?

What are the roots in garbage collection? I have read the definition of root as "any reference that you program can access to" and definition of live is that an object that is being used, which ca...

I have a question about GC roots. I read that one of the GC roots is "Live thread". What does that mean? I always had the impression that each thread has its own stack and local variables of a st...

I am writing a compiler for a fairly standard stack machine. Now I want to add a garbage collector. I can see that I could generate some sort of 'stack maps' to know which variables are gc roots in...

I'm trying to implement a simple mark and sweep garbage collector in C. The first step of the algorithm is finding the roots. So my question is how can I find the roots in a C program? In the pro...