From: "Centaury" <utopian@tm.net.my>
Subject: Question about garbage collection
Date: 1998/04/18
Date: 1998-04-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6h851g$sq$1@news.tm.net.my> (raw)
One question about access type garbage collection.
I understand that when an access object is no longer pointed at by an access
variable, the space taken by object would usually be reclaimed.
One question. . if the object itself is a record that has an access type in
it, and that object is pointing at another object, but not pointed at; would
it be considered lost and would the space be reclaimed??
Let me put it in illustration:
head --> ("myname",link) --> ("yourname", link) --> null
^
|
|
("hisname", link) -->null
will the space resided by ("hisname", link) be recovered by garbage
collector??
Regards,
Centaury
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-04-18 0:00 Centaury [this message]
1998-04-18 0:00 ` Question about garbage collection Matthew Heaney
1998-04-19 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1998-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-20 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1998-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-21 0:00 ` raw
[not found] ` <ErqJro.9BI@world.std.com>
1998-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-21 0:00 ` William Tanksley
[not found] ` <ErvsM0.Bu7@world.std.com>
1998-04-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <Es39LE.B5o@world.std.com>
1998-04-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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