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From: genly@bubble.multiflow.COM (Chris Hind Genly)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: arrays and garbage collection
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Date: 6 Feb 90 21:35:53 GMT
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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?!
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