From: raw@cs.wisc.edu
Subject: Re: Question about garbage collection
Date: 1998/04/21
Date: 1998-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6hi8fb$igu$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.893122395@merv
In article <dewar.893122395@merv>,
dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote
about conservative garbage collectors:
>
> .... It is easy to construct cases where it fails
> completely (e.g. a circular structure that in its entirety could be
> collected), ....
This would be an example where reference counting fails.
Conservative garbage collectors could remove such a structure
unless some bit pattern somewhere accessible could be a
pointer to some part of the structure.
--
MJSR
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-04-21 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-04-18 0:00 Question about garbage collection Centaury
1998-04-18 0:00 ` 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 [this message]
[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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