[Mono-list] managed question

Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:37:10 +1100

I came in on the end of this thread.... Yes,  this can certainly happen in
a Java VM.  It makes writing java native methods a little clumsy as you
have to pin or move variable data between the native method variable and
the java variable.

Cheers
Geoff

                    Lloyd Dupont                                                              
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                    26/11/2001 05:24                                                          
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i found this amazing !
anayway, if it is the way life it, i guess i have to with it...

Fergus Henderson wrote:

> 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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