Re: [Gnash-dev] GC: status report & call for test

[Eric Hughes]

P.S. Re: weak pointers

I didn't mention this right when it came up a few days ago, but there's a 
second important use case for weak pointers in the VM: the debugger.  Since 
a debugger shouldn't alter execution pattern, that should also include when 
objects get rounded up for collection.  In other words, each and every 
pointer from the debugger to any object in a program-under-test should be 
weak.  When such a weak pointer goes out of scope, the debugger simply says 
"object no longer exists", which is exactly informative.

Eric