Weak References

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Sean Kelly" <sean at invisibleduck.org> wrote in message 
news:g7fv4t$2bce$1 at digitalmars.com...

>
> The last time I tested the WeakRef code the unittest was simply broken
> in that it tried something like this:
>
>    WeakRef!(int) r = new int;
>    GC.collect();
>    assert( r.get() is null );
>
> Problem being that a register still may have a reference to the int value
> that the test expected to be collected.  The easiest way around this is to
> perform a second "dummy" allocation in hopes that the relevant registers
> will be overwritten.  Once I made this change in the WeakRef code the
> unittest passed for Tango.

For you.  For me, it still fails.