From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-10-22T23:13:00+09:00
Subject: Re: rb_gc_register_address problem

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:39:10PM +0000, ahoward wrote:
> i'm not _positive_, but if you did not store pointers to pointers to
> objects, you would not be able to change, in the gc, what that
> pointerer was pointing to!  you would only be able to change the thing
> pointed to itself! eg.  the gc would never be able to set an object
> pointer to nil, or anywhere else...

I see!  That makes perfect sense.

I had not considered creating global variables that actually change.  I
generally leave them alone once they are created.  I guess I should be
using a constant instead.

> gcc has built in memory leak debugging - but it only works with c.  a
> good reason not to use c++ imo. ;-)

Where can I read more about this facility?

> i actually have a modification, somewhere, which works with c++, want
> it?

What does the modification involve?

Paul