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Question on circular linked lists
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edmund Burnette)
Wed Sep 20 17:56:56 1995
From: Edmund Burnette <sasebb@unx.sas.com>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 15:30:19 -0400 (EDT)
Suppose that you have a circularly linked list. Wouldn't it be
possible to orphan this memory and have a memory leak,
since nulling the master pointer wouldn't decrement the use
count to zero, and it would seem impractical for the system
to check for loops in the reference chains.
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