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From: mg@harp.camb.inmet.com (Mitch Gart)
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection in Ada
Date: 1996/10/31
Date: 1996-10-31T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E055IC.26I.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bbc6a3$4cf03480$829d6482@joy.ericsson.se


Jonas Nygren (ehsjony@ehs.ericsson.se) wrote:

(snip)

: package Collected is

:    type Object is
:       tagged record
:          Reference_Count : Natural;
:       end record;
:    type Object_Access is access all Object'Class;

:    type Handle is new Ada.Finalization with
:       record
:          Ref : Object_Access;
:       end record;

: end Collected;

(snip)

This suffers from several problems:

- If you provide a function to do allocations,

    function Allocate_Obj return Handle;

  and users use this function, things work well, but if a user calls
  "new Object" directly things don't work at all.  

- Obj1 := Obj2;      doesn't work because the reference count value is
  copied.  If Obj2's count is 3 before the assignment, after the assignment
  Obj1's count is also 3 which is probably wrong.

Mitch Gart




       reply	other threads:[~1996-10-31  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 126+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <01bbc6a3$4cf03480$829d6482@joy.ericsson.se>
1996-10-31  0:00 ` Mitch Gart [this message]
1996-10-31  0:00   ` Garbage Collection in Ada Jonas Nygren
1996-11-03  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
1996-11-06  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-06  0:00       ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-01  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-11-06  0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1996-11-07  0:00   ` Tucker Taft
1996-11-02  0:00 Jon S Anthony
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-10-22  0:00 Brian Rogoff
1996-10-13  0:00 Jonas Nygren
1996-10-13  0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-13  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
     [not found]     ` <19961014115513529729@dialup105-2-16.swipnet.se>
1996-10-16  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16  0:00         ` Lars Farm
1996-10-16  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16  0:00             ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17  0:00                 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-17  0:00                 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17  0:00                 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-17  0:00             ` Lars Farm
1996-10-23  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16  0:00         ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-16  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16  0:00             ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17  0:00                 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-13  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-14  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-14  0:00     ` Lars Farm
1996-10-15  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-16  0:00         ` Lars Farm
1996-10-16  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-19  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-19  0:00                 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-20  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-20  0:00                     ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-20  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21  0:00                     ` Lars Farm
1996-10-21  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21  0:00                         ` Lars Farm
1996-10-21  0:00                     ` Geert Bosch
1996-10-21  0:00                       ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-23  0:00                     ` Fergus Henderson
1996-10-24  0:00                     ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-20  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-20  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21  0:00                     ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-21  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-19  0:00               ` Richard Kenner
1996-10-15  0:00     ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-14  0:00   ` John Howard
1996-10-15  0:00     ` Lars Farm
1996-10-15  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-15  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-15  0:00         ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-15  0:00         ` Lars Farm
1996-10-17  0:00         ` Thomas Kendelbacher
1996-10-17  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-23  0:00         ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-23  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-15  0:00   ` Keith Thompson
1996-10-13  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-14  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-15  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-15  0:00 ` Hannes Haug
1996-10-15  0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-15  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16  0:00   ` whiting_ms@corning.com (Matt Whiting)
1996-10-16  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17  0:00   ` John Howard
1996-10-17  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18  0:00       ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-18  0:00       ` Lars Farm
1996-10-20  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-18  0:00       ` Lars Farm
1996-10-19  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-20  0:00           ` Lars Farm
1996-10-21  0:00             ` Nicolay Belofastow
1996-10-21  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-22  0:00               ` Lars Farm
1996-10-20  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-20  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-22  0:00         ` Mitch Gart
1996-10-23  0:00           ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-27  0:00             ` Richard Riehle
1996-10-23  0:00           ` Fergus Henderson
1996-10-29  0:00         ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-30  0:00         ` Brian Rogoff
1996-10-30  0:00         ` Jonas Nygren
1996-10-30  0:00         ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-30  0:00         ` James Rogers
1996-10-16  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-16  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-16  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-16  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-17  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16  0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1996-10-16  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17  0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17  0:00 ` Rick Hudson
1996-10-17  0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-17  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17  0:00     ` Richard Kenner
1996-10-18  0:00 ` Rick Hudson
1996-10-18  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-18  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-23  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21  0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
1996-10-21  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-22  0:00 ` Tapani Rundgren
1996-10-22  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-23  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-24  0:00   ` Mitch Gart
1996-10-24  0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-24  0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-25  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-28  0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-29  0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-11  0:00 C++ Standardization (was: Once again, Ada absent from DoD SBIR solicitation) Dave Wood
1996-10-17  0:00 ` Garbage Collection in Ada Thomas Kendelbacher
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