Jarrett Billingsley Wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Daniel White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> That would be a bad idea. Then how would you do manual memory > >> management in the few cases that absolutely require it? > > > > Two ways. Either: > > > > a: being able to lock the variable so that the garbage collector > > can't touch it until you unlock it. > > Why not just use GC-allocated memory and use addRoot then?
Well that question points at the deeper issue of why bother having malloc at all.
