[1973] in java-interest
Re: Question on circular linked lists
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Payne)
Wed Sep 20 18:26:44 1995
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 12:58:22 -0700
From: jpayne@starwave.com (Jonathan Payne)
To: sasebb@unx.sas.com
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <199509201930.AA14219@zen.unx.sas.com> (message from Edmund Burnette on Wed, 20 Sep 1995 15:30:19 -0400 (EDT))
Java doesn't use a reference count garbage collector. It would be
collected and re-used.
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> 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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