Re: [Gnash-dev] GC and refcount

[Richard Wilbur]

On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 20:31 +0100, strk wrote:
> A posible solution to this problem is having 
>  intrusive_ptr_add_ref(const ref_counted* o)
> and
>  intrusive_ptr_release(const ref_counted* o)
> 
> NEVER dereference 'o' but rather ask the GC
> to manage the reference count. The GC might
> keep a map of managed resources and do
> nothing if they are no more in the list.
> 
> Only thing to take care of in this case would
> be ensuring that the objects-to-be-deleted won't
> be really deleted (freed) until the intrusive_ptr
> they contain are reset, which means adding a method
> to every objects who may contain references to
> GcResources to use for 'clearing' all those references
> before destruction.
> 
> --strk;
[...]

This sounds like a good solution to a rather knotty (or should I say
loopy?) problem.

Richard
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