[C400-L] ILE C/teraspace capabilities for examining process memory

[Peter Colson <pcolson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm trying to understand some aspects of the ILE C platform so that I 
can successfully port an open-source mark-sweep garbage collector.

I'm using teraspace options so that I've got 8 byte pointers and a 
unix-like memory model.

Essentially the gc wants to be able to scan all global statically 
allocated and local stack allocated memory plus registers to establish 
a "root set" for scanning of the heap to determine which blocks of 
memory are still being referenced.

This leads to some general requirements which I'm unsure are available 
on this platform:

- Basically, is it possible for a C program to determine storage being 
used by the running process (and any shared ones dynamically loaded as 
service programs, a.k.a. "dll's")?
- When using setjmp() can it be used to save and restore registers to 
the stack, such that they can then be examined and coerced into the 
root set for scanning of the heap?
- Is it possible to access the complete data segment(s) and stack of a 
C program (and procedures within it) on this platform?


Regards,
Peter Colson.