From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Fri Dec 18 1998 - 10:17:08 EST
On Dec 18, 1998, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> Alexandre, given that objects can outlive the loaders of the class to
> which they belong, how can you avoid marking the class when you walk the
> object? An object may hold the last reference to a class that keeps it
> alive.
Oops, I had missed that. The (broken) reasoning was that the object
would keep the class alive, and the class would keep the loader alive,
and then the loader will keep the class alive, so the object doesn't
have to mark it. Will you please fix that, or should I do that?
Sorry about that :-(
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Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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