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Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory
Date 2013-12-05 06:30 -0800
Organization Nightsong/Fort GNOX
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Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> writes:
> So the free: message is first sent to the object before the object
> itself is FREEd.  This gives the object the ability to first FREE any
> memory allocated within the object, nested to any level.

How does it know that it should do that, if there might be other
pointers around to the internal objects?  Also you mentioned a desire to
resize objects.  How do you do that, if the resize might relocate the
object, and there are shared pointers?  How do you go about tracking
them all?

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Reclaiming Allocated Memory Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2013-11-25 07:41 -0500
  Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-11-25 07:04 -0800
    Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-11-25 16:16 +0000
      Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-11-25 09:03 -0800
        Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2013-11-26 06:30 -0500
          Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory AKK <akk@nospam.org> - 2013-11-26 13:07 +0100
    Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2013-11-26 05:11 -0500
  Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-12-04 16:46 +0000
    Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2013-12-05 06:43 -0500
      Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-05 06:30 -0800
        Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-12-05 14:37 +0000
          Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-05 07:21 -0800
        Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2013-12-06 04:57 -0500
          Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-06 07:38 -0800
            Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2013-12-07 06:14 -0500
      Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-12-05 18:14 +0000
        Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2013-12-06 04:58 -0500
          Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-12-06 17:30 +0100
            Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2013-12-07 05:59 -0500
              Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-12-07 11:57 +0000
                Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-12-07 17:48 +0000
                Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-12-07 19:15 +0100
                Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-12-09 13:45 +0000
          Re: Reclaiming Allocated Memory anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-12-06 17:42 +0000

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