Hi, Thank you for this information, but what i wanted to know is- suppose a method has a fixed block meant to pin an object say X, does X stay pinned throughout the lifetime of the method or does it cease to become pinned right after the fixed block is executed? a sample dis-assembled program seemed to indicate that, the fixed objects were prefixed with 'pinned' at the beginning of the method declaration. so does that mean X ceases to be pinned only after it goes out of scope?
regards On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Jan Kotas wrote: > The pinning bit is used only within the GC when everything else is > stopped. It should be never set on a live object when the managed code > is running. The bit is set in the scan phase and reset in the copy phase > (in scavenge). Look for clear_marked_pinned in gcsmp.cpp. > > -Jan > > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no > rights. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Discussion of the Rotor Shared Source CLI implementation > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Archana > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 6:00 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [DOTNET-ROTOR] scope of pinned variables > > Hi, > this is wrt implementation of status updation of an object. > when is the pin-bit of an object reset?. ie. when does the GC get the > information that, okay now this particular object X is no longer pinned. > the GC appears to recognize pinning/set the pin bit thru pinObject in > Promote. > > Thanks, > archana >
