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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Releasing Aliased Variables
Date: 07 Mar 2001 22:31:54 +0100
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Byron Kauffman <byronbkauffman@netscape.net> writes:

> I'm having a problem understanding what defining a variable as aliased
> does. Is there a problem with releasing an aliased pointer? Can or
> should you even alias a pointer?

What is an 'aliased pointer'?  Aliased objects are required if you
want to obtain an access value (using the Access attribute).  They
don't need to be deallocated themselves, in contrast to objects
created by an allocator.