From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
Subject: Re: Abnormal objects - how they can become normal again?
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:50:37 +0100
Date: 2005-12-22T11:50:37+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43AA84FD.7050601@mailinator.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wccslsmw2a8.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Robert A Duff wrote:
> (snip)
>
> Another way to deal with abnormal (possibly controlled) objects is to
> add a level of indirection. I believe you can Unchecked_Deallocate an
> abnormal object (not sure). Assignment of access values does not
> involve finalization. So when you have a possibly-abnormal object, you
> could simply throw it away and create a new one.
I guess you can indeed free abnormal controlled objects, but this will
trigger finalization, and I think the OP wanted to avoid this (as this
happens too when overwriting the abnormal object during asignation).
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2005-12-21 13:01 Abnormal objects - how they can become normal again? Maciej Sobczak
2005-12-21 21:47 ` Robert A Duff
2005-12-22 10:50 ` Alex R. Mosteo [this message]
2005-12-22 15:57 ` Robert A Duff
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