hiding a pointer

[Thomas Kuehne]

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Stewart Gordon schrieb am 2006-10-24:
> Thomas Kuehne wrote:
>> Sometimes you might have to hide a pointer, so that the GC doesn't
>> "see" it and might reclaim the pointer's destination if there are
>> no other pointers into this area.
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> And won't update it if it's moved by a copying GC.

Right, this aint no weak pointer but a hidden one.

Thomas


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