Does a garbage collector collect stack memory, heap memory, or both?

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Published on 2010-03-26T16:13:53Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 17:03 UTC
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I read lot of articles about garbage collection and almost all article tells about heap memory. so my question is "garbage collection collects stack memory or heap memory or both".

thanks Kalpesh

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