From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2005-05-17T04:38:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Doubt about GC

Hello Eustaquio,


ERdOJ> My doubt is why Car no. 4 is still there, after running gc. There is no
ERdOJ> reference to it outside the function, right? So it should not have be
ERdOJ> sweeped by GC?

Unlikely but the stack marking is conservative. Maybe there is
something on the stack that looks like a pointer to Car no.4. In this
event Car no.4 will not be deleted.


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