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From: Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com>
To: "Alexander V. Voinov" <avv@quasar.ipa.nw.ru>,
	Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] register_global_root, malloc, etc.
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:59:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010815175549.02c293d0@shell16.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B79DDC7.36D40AC3@quasar.ipa.nw.ru>


>I can't understand who will delete `foo *', allocated via `foo *p = new
>foo'?

free_foo unregisters the roots pointing inside foo, and then deletes foo.  The GC will deallocate the abstract object itself.

> As I understood from the manual, Custom_tag is the only way to
>assign free_foo with the resulting Caml object.

Custom means the object gets a finalization call from the gc.  Abstract means there's no finalization.  I should be using Custom so my foo doesn't leak.

Chris


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      reply	other threads:[~2001-08-16  0:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-26  8:48 Chris Hecker
2001-08-14  8:25 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-08-15  2:26   ` Alexander V. Voinov
2001-08-16  0:59     ` Chris Hecker [this message]

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