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<title>GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Internals: GGC Roots</title>
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<a name="GGC-Roots"></a>
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Next: <a href="Files.html#Files" accesskey="n" rel="next">Files</a>, Previous: <a href="User-GC.html#User-GC" accesskey="p" rel="prev">User GC</a>, Up: <a href="Type-Information.html#Type-Information" accesskey="u" rel="up">Type Information</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Option-Index.html#Option-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<a name="Marking-Roots-for-the-Garbage-Collector"></a>
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<h3 class="section">22.4 Marking Roots for the Garbage Collector</h3>
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<a name="index-roots_002c-marking"></a>
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<a name="index-marking-roots"></a>
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<p>In addition to keeping track of types, the type machinery also locates
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the global variables (<em>roots</em>) that the garbage collector starts
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at. Roots must be declared using one of the following syntaxes:
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<li> <code>extern GTY(([<var>options</var>])) <var>type</var> <var>name</var>;</code>
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<p>The syntax
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<li> <code>GTY(([<var>options</var>])) <var>type</var> <var>name</var>;</code>
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<p>is <em>not</em> accepted. There should be an <code>extern</code> declaration
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of such a variable in a header somewhere—mark that, not the
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definition. Or, if the variable is only used in one file, make it
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