[Gc] Porting Mono's version of the garbage collector to a simple OS

[MudgeMC at welchallyn.com]

I am a part of a group that is porting Mono, which includes its own 
modified version of the Boehm GC, to a microkernel called ThreadX.  Can I 
get some suggestions on specifically what parts of code need to be changed 
to suit this OS?

 - There is poor support for signals, so we'd like to avoid using them.
 - The OS exposes the bounds of the used stack for each thread. (scan the 
stack)
 - The OS can force another thread to sleep and delay signal processing. 
(stop the world)
 - A fixed amount of RAM will be used and there is no MMU; just malloc. 
(use ECOS' tiny_sbrk?)

Because of the above, I assume a lot of the signal code can be factored 
out.  Am I right on this?  What is the appropriate way to do this? 
Pointers to docs that address this specifically are appreciated too.

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Thanks,
- Michael "Kipp" Mudge
Welch Allyn
Software Engineer
315-554-4057
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