How do we know that garbage collector in calling in Generation 1 or 2 on a memory location.

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I searched from internet that garbage collector work or call in 3 generation ie.
Generation 0
Generation 1
Generation 2

and in each generation it perform 3 steps ie.
Collection
Compaction/De-fragmentation
Reference Update

I just to know how Garbage will understand that it is calling in Generation 2 or a memory location?

Posted 8-Oct-14 20:40pm

Er Daljeet Singh

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Mehdi Gholam · Answer 1 · 2014-10-08T22:20:00

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Generations have different memory locations, read this : Fundamentals of Garbage Collection[^]

Posted 8-Oct-14 22:20pm

Mehdi Gholam