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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection
Date: 18 Dec 88 20:12:58 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4176@enea.se> (raw)

Sworn enemy to garbage collection Bill Wolfe writes:
>     The deallocation of every object in the local environment is
>     performed as an automatic service when a procedure, function,
>     or local block is exited.  This is not garbage collection,
>     because the programmer has implicitly directed that the 
>     destruction be performed.  

I read this as "on block exit all memory allocated to variables
declared in that block should be deallocated". 
  Isn't this very dangerous? What if programmer copied the object to
a variable declared in a outer block? Or stored it in a table of some
sort in a subprogram call made in block? 
-- 
Erland Sommarskog
ENEA Data, Stockholm
sommar@enea.se
"Frequently, unexpected errors are entirely unpredictable" - Digital Equipment

             reply	other threads:[~1988-12-18 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1988-12-18 20:12 Erland Sommarskog [this message]
1988-12-20 19:04 ` Garbage Collection Bill Wolfe
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1999-08-18  0:00 garbage collection Ronald Ayoub
1999-08-18  0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-08-19  0:00   ` Gautier
1999-08-19  0:00     ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-08-20  0:00   ` Keith Thompson
1999-08-20  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-18  0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde
1999-08-18  0:00 ` Pascal MALAISE
1999-08-20  0:00   ` David Botton
1999-08-18  0:00 ` tmoran
1999-08-18  0:00   ` Keith Thompson
1999-08-19  0:00     ` Tucker Taft
1999-08-19  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-19  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-20  0:00     ` tmoran
1999-08-20  0:00       ` Keith Thompson
1999-08-20  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
1999-08-20  0:00           ` Keith Thompson
1999-08-21  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
1999-08-21  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-21  0:00               ` Matthew Heaney
1999-08-21  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-21  0:00         ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-21  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-24  0:00 Garbage Collection H Brett Bolen
1989-01-10 19:16 Erland Sommarskog
1989-01-11 16:10 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-06 22:17 Erland Sommarskog
1989-01-08 18:40 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-09  3:56   ` Barry Margolin
1989-01-09 16:22     ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-09 19:00       ` Barry Margolin
1989-01-10  2:50         ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-11  9:22           ` Barry Margolin
1989-01-11 16:01             ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-11 18:21               ` Barry Margolin
1989-01-12  2:43                 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-15  7:14                   ` Barry Margolin
1989-01-05 23:26 Erland Sommarskog
1988-12-31  0:04 Erland Sommarskog
1989-01-05  8:13 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-28 19:20 Erland Sommarskog
1988-12-30  0:52 ` Bill Wolfe
1988-12-26 23:37 Erland Sommarskog
1988-12-27 21:24 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-28 16:09   ` Snorri Agnarsson
1988-12-30  0:46     ` Bill Wolfe
1988-12-27 22:24 ` Bob Hathaway
1988-12-13 20:07 Erland Sommarskog
1988-12-15 19:13 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-07 15:22 Collective response to := messa ron
1988-12-11 19:11 ` Garbage Collection William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-12  5:29   ` John Gateley
1988-12-12 18:19     ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-13  1:02       ` Alexander Klaiber
1988-12-13 18:37         ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-13 23:36           ` Alexander Klaiber
1988-12-14  3:26             ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-14 17:16             ` Stephe Leake
1988-12-15 14:43             ` Thomas P. Morris
1988-12-14 23:30           ` John Gateley
1988-12-15 19:25             ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-19 16:12               ` John Gateley
1988-12-20 19:34                 ` Bill Wolfe
1988-12-13 20:22         ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1988-12-14  6:40           ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1988-12-14 17:43             ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-02 17:51   ` ryer
1989-01-05  8:31     ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-06 16:58   ` ryer
1989-01-08 19:24     ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
     [not found] <145@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
     [not found] ` <272@fang.ATT.COM>
1988-03-29 13:47   ` From Modula to Oberon Denis Fortin
1988-03-30 15:32     ` Lawrence Crowl
1988-03-30 22:41       ` Hans Boehm
1988-03-31  6:27         ` Garbage Collection Richard Harter
1988-03-31 19:49           ` Hans Boehm
1988-04-01  5:43             ` Richard Harter
1988-04-01 18:43               ` Hans Boehm
1988-04-04 23:14           ` 00704a-Liber
1986-03-16 22:24 Garbage collection "Alexander L. Wolf"
     [not found] <1979@mit-eddi.UUCP>
     [not found] ` <2144@mit-eddie.UUCP>
1984-06-18 19:28   ` Abstraction In Ada Jon Mauney
1984-06-22  7:47     ` Doug Alan
1984-06-25  2:15       ` brad
1984-07-17 10:34         ` garbage collection Eric Smith
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