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Re: Dangerous deallocation/circular reference...

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Subject: Re: Dangerous deallocation/circular reference...
From: Kevin Ballard <kevin at sb dot org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 17:26:38 -0400
On 7/11/02 5:20 PM, "Will Leshner" <leshner at ljug dot com> wrote:

> Actually, that's exactly what he means. The trick he has discovered is
> that he can have an object pair with a circular reference to each other
> out in the middle of nowhere with nothing else pointing to them. The
> reason this works is that one of the two is a timer that keeps going off.
> The problem is that while one of the objects in the pair breaks the
> circular reference (on purpose) and at that point the two objects should
> vanish as nothing else points to them.
> 
> On Thursday, July 11, 2002, at 02:05  PM, Joseph J. Strout wrote:
> 
>> Only if you have no other references to the Tickler object, which I
>> find hard to believe.

Hrm. It COULD keep a reference to itself.... it would never die, though. But
if it's supposed to live until the app itself quits, that's not a problem,
right?

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Kevin Ballard
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