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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula3
Subject: Re: optimization and garbage collection
Message-ID: <2v+5h2.[21@smurf.sub.org>
Date: 11 Jan 91 21:11:43 GMT
References: <5142@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <39976@super.ORG> <5293@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In comp.lang.modula3, article <5293@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>,
  chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase) writes:
< 
< The garbage collector goes looking for pointers to the beginning
< of an object, finds none, and reclaims the object (incorrectly).
< Any temporaries referencing the object are now dangling pointers.
< 
It might be more reasonable to mark the object in use if there is any pointer
anywhere into the object.

Has anyone tried this and watched whether, for a test case which exhibits the
problem, said problem goes away?

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