[Mono-list] managed question

[Fergus Henderson]

On 24-Nov-2001, Lloyd Dupont <lloyd@galador.net> wrote:
> i wonder how the runtime could change all reference to a variable, did 
> he really do this ?

That's implementation dependent... but for some implementations,
yes, the garbage collector will move objects around in memory
and update all the references to those objects to point to the
new locations.

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