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From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@epfl.ch>
To: Roberto Bagnara <bagnara@cs.unipr.it>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Garbage collecting _everything_
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 18:11:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <02E20BDC-B70B-11D8-9169-000393DBC266@epfl.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ED655A66-B709-11D8-9169-000393DBC266@epfl.ch>

Maybe I wasn't clear enough, sorry.

> Suppose you have this definition in a module
>
> let x = (1.0, 2.0)

and this one

let f () = x

You cannot garbage collect x since at any time function f may be 
called. For example

  at_exit (fun () -> Gc.full_major; ignore (f ())) ;;

Daniel

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-05 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-05 15:36 Roberto Bagnara
2004-06-05 16:03 ` Daniel Bünzli
2004-06-05 16:11   ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]
2004-06-05 16:29 ` skaller
2004-06-05 16:50   ` Richard Jones
2004-06-05 19:46   ` Roberto Bagnara

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