On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Lukas Renggli <renggli@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Any ideas where this black magic comes from ?
>>
>> From what I know Symbols always end up in the out-pointers because
>> they are always referenced at least from the Symbol table.
>
> Not necessarily. The symbol table is a *weak* set and hence if you don't strongly hold onto the symbols they get into the segment array and not into the out pointers! This is a potential source of subtle problems because after loading the segment you end up with duplicated symbols (we run into this with Cmsbox...). The easiest solution is to create a temporary variable and assign "Symbol allSymbols" while creating a segment.

Ok, but that is done at several places in ImageSegement.


I "fixed" this. Actually, I don't fix it, but I put in at least only one place that fix for everybody (I think).

Thanks for the tipo of ReferenceStream>>#readSymbol.��� however...I debug it and have empy symbols...wierd. Now I am very dead, but I hope tomorrow to check it more in depth.
Lukas

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