= Fundamentals of garbage collection by Microsoft
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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/garbage-collection/fundamentals
Primary runtime documentation, “What happens during a garbage collection”: marking identifies live objects, relocation updates references, and compaction moves surviving objects. The same section identifies compiler-reported stack roots, runtime handles and static references as sources used to determine liveness. Used for the reference-management principle, not a claim that every collection moves every object.
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