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The Boehm GC only needs interior pointer checking if pointers in global variables or on the heap point to the interior of an object rather than the beginning. If this does not happen, then checking for interior pointers causes additional overhead, in particular because any objects whose sizes are an exact multiple of two words gain another two words of padding, wasting memory. If checking of interior pointers is still desired, this can be achieved by setting the environment variable GC_ALL_INTERIOR_POINTERS. Pointers on the stack will always be treated as potential interior pointers, as compiler optimizations may advance the only live reference to a point past the beginning of an object.