On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:08 , Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Adrian Lienhard <adi@netstyle.ch> wrote:
When you are creating your root of objects and you put symbols inside, they are not put in ourPointers but in ByteArray. This is due to the fact that the only object who is pointing to that symbol is inside the segment ?
To be precise, the symbols are also pointed to by the symbol table, but only by weak references. Since image segments use the GC mark logic, these pointers are not considered.
What you do with this piece of code:
symbolHolder := Symbol allSymbols.
is to hold those symbols there. So, when ImageSegment uses the GC techniques to detect which objects are ONLY pointed from inside of the segment, the symbols is not found (because it is accessible trough that test) and thus, it goes to outPointers instead of ByteArray.
And of course, if it is in outPointers instead of ByteArray when the segment is loaded again, yo don't create a symbol again but use the same object (the one of the oop).
I am correct? or I understood anything ?
yes. Cheers, Adrian