From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,aa2e415128e40fff X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: raw@cs.wisc.edu Subject: Re: Question about garbage collection Date: 1998/04/21 Message-ID: <6hi8fb$igu$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 346283742 References: <6h851g$sq$1@news.tm.net.my> <6hf8jj$p9a$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Reply-To: raw@cs.wisc.edu X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.02; Win32) Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Apr 21 13:54:51 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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 -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Now offering spam-free web-based newsreading