Re: possible garbage collector problem...

[Michael McClary <michael>]

> From tribble Sun Oct  1 22:54:15 1989
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> Date: Sun, 1 Oct 89 22:54:08 PDT
> From: tribble (Eric Dean Tribble)
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> To: mark
> Cc: heh, xanatech
> In-Reply-To: Mark S. Miller's message of Sun, 1 Oct 89 17:59:43 PDT <8910020059.AA07720@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: possible garbage collector problem...
> Status: R
> 
>    What if both "g" and "h" were declared
>    as returning Strong pointers (not references to strong pointers)?  My
>    reading of the language definition is that the foo and bar temporaries
>    generated as above would then be Strong pointers, and all would be
>    well.  I'll try this out soon and let you know.
> 
> This was the solution I had in mind.  I think it works, but it implies
> that most return values are typed as strong pointers.  What happens if
> we cast a wimpy pointer into a strong pointer?
> 
> dean
>