From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2003-08-12T17:24:06+09:00
Subject: Re: A question about Circular References

>>>>> "L" == Lyle Johnson <lyle@knology.net> writes:

L> I'm not sure that this is in fact true for "Data" objects like these. I 
L> took a quick look at the Ruby source code (see rb_gc_mark_children() in 
L> gc.c) and it's not clear to me that instance variables for Data 
L> (extension) objects get marked automatically. You should add some 
L> debugging statements (or whatever) to convince yourself that this is 
L> what actually happens.

 line 622 in gc.c (ruby 1.8.0)


Guy Decoux