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>
> >Perhaps, for the paranoid (or bitten), there could be a call that
> >designates a certain area of the stack as _not_ containing any
> >pointers into the heap.
>
> Only the stack is scanned conservatively. Precise techniques are used
> everywhere else. If you want to keep memory from being scanned
> conservatively, allocate it with malloc.
>
That convinces me. Put that suggestion in the documentation somewhere,
and anyone who worries about the problem for five minutes more is crazy.
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