Soft/weak references?

[BCS]

Reply to Robert,

> BCS Wrote:
> 
>> Reply to Robert,
>> 
>>> BCS Wrote:
>>> 
>>>> T** ptr;
>>>> 
>>> But this means there's still a reference to it.
>>> 
>> It's a total hack. You get a reference to a chunk of memory that
>> contains a reference to the data, but you lie to the GC and tell it
>> that the chunk of memory doesn't contain any references so it won't
>> notice the refernce.
>> 
> All right, I'll give it a shot. Thanks!
> 

BTW I haven't even tried to complile that code so...