CS 3520 Homework 12   - Due December 5

Exercise 12.1, Garbage collection

Suppose a garbage-collected interepreter uses the following four kinds of records:(An "integer" is an immediate integer, not a tagged integer representing a value in the interpreted language.)

The interpreter has two registers, which always contain pointers, and a memory pool of size 30. The allocator/collector is a two-space copying collector, so each space is of size 15. Records are allocated consecutively in to-space, starting from the first memory location, 0.

The following is a snapshot of memory just before a collection where all memory has been allocated:

What are the values in the two registers and the new to-space after collection? Assume that unallocated memory in to-space contains 0.

Express your answer as a function answer-for-12.1 that takes no arguments and returns a list of 17 numbers (register 1, then register 2, then to-space slots).


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