Conspiracy Theory #1

[Travis Boucher]

Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> dsimcha, el 20 de noviembre a las 16:24 me escribiste:
>>>> Right, but they can still be the target of false pointers.  In this case, false
>>>> pointers keep each instance of foo[] alive, leading to severe memory leaks.
>>> But the issue is more of a GC implementation issue then a language
>>> issue, correct?
>> Yes.
>>
>>> Or is this an issue of all lower level language garbage
>>> collectors?
>> Kinda sorta.  It's possible, but not easy, to implement fully precise GC (except
>> for the extreme corner case of unions of reference and non-reference types) in a
>> close to the metal, statically compiled language.
> 
> I don't think so if you want to be able to link to C code, unless I'm
> missing something...
> 

The extern (C) stuff and malloc allocated memory isn't garbage collected.