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- From: hendrik@vedge.UUCP (Hendrik Boom)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Garbage Collection for C++
- Message-ID: <28623@vedge.UUCP>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 18:33:04 GMT
- References: <DAVEG.92Aug20043156@synaptx.synaptics.com>
- Organization: Visual Edge Software, St. Laurent, Quebec
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- daveg@synaptics.com (Dave Gillespie) writes:
- :
- : I did; as far as I can tell, the GC has to call destructors, and it's
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- One of my nightmares in a Lisp garbage collector is the destructor
- from Hell that retrieves otherwise moribund objects and makes them
- accessible again. Do we have to do another garbage collection to see if
- objects are really free? And if they are, do we have to call
- the destructor from hell again? and again? and again?and again?
-