The Rotor GC does not care whether the object was pinned at some point in the past. It only cares about objects that are currently pinned.
If your GC needs to know whether the object was pinned at some point in the past, it needs to track this information - it is not going to get it for free from the current implementation. -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: Thursday, February 05, 2004 6:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DOTNET-ROTOR] about Pinning objects Hi, On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Jan Kotas wrote: > If both foo and bar are on the stack the callback will be called > multiple times for the string: for the argument of foo(), for the > argument of bar() and finally for the pinned variable in bar(). Only the > very last one is going to have the pinned bit set. Oh, now i get it. But still i couldnt understand how can we keep track of this fact that an object is no longer pinned. can you please elaborate on that? Thanks archana =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(r) http://www.develop.com NEW! ASP.NET courses you may be interested in: 2 Days of ASP.NET, 29 Sept 2003, in Redmond http://www.develop.com/courses/2daspdotnet Guerrilla ASP.NET, 13 Oct 2003, in Boston http://www.develop.com/courses/gaspdotnet View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentorŪ http://www.develop.com NEW! ASP.NET courses you may be interested in: 2 Days of ASP.NET, 29 Sept 2003, in Redmond http://www.develop.com/courses/2daspdotnet Guerrilla ASP.NET, 13 Oct 2003, in Boston http://www.develop.com/courses/gaspdotnet View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
