[Gd-hackers] Suggested patch for Open Dylan's C runtime

Hannes Mehnert hannes at mehnert.org
Thu Aug 2 16:45:57 CEST 2007


Hi Bruce, Thomas,

Bruce Hoult wrote:
> On 8/2/07, Thomas Christian Chust <chust at web.de> wrote:
>> Also the documentation of the Boehm garbage collector states in the
>> documentation for GC_register_finalizer_ignore_self and _no_order: "Note
>> that cd [the data argument for the registered finalizer] will still be
>> viewed as accessible, even if it refers to the object itself." I think
>> this confirms that the data argument is always stored somewhere
>> reachable from a GC root.
> 
> Cool :-)
> 
> I'm more than happy.

great. I committed the updated patch yesterday. Thanks a lot for your
work, both of you.


Hannes



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