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Article #1535arrays and garbage collection
From: Chris Hind Genly
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 21:35
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 21:35
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Arrays appear to be part of the Eiffel library, and not part of the Eiffel language itself. A C function called 'alloc' is called to allocate space for the array. Doesn't this prohibit the garbage collector from knowing what type of data is kept in the array? If so doesn't this cause objects referenced through only an array to be collected as garbage?! -- ======================================================================= Chris Hind Genly, N1GLZ - Multiflow Computer - mfci!genly (203)488-6090
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mfci!m3!genly From: genly@bubble.multiflow.COM (Chris Hind Genly) Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel Subject: arrays and garbage collection Message-ID: <1223@m3.mfci.UUCP> Date: 6 Feb 90 21:35:53 GMT Sender: news@mfci.UUCP Distribution: comp Organization: Multiflow Computer Inc., Branford, CT Lines: 12