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From: "Centaury" <utopian@tm.net.my>
Subject: Question about garbage collection
Date: 1998/04/18
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Date: 1998-04-18T00:00:00+00:00
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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