* Andy Ross -- Wednesday 29 June 2005 23:42: > Reference counting is used to make sure that (a) memory is never freed > when there are live pointers to it, and (b) live pointers never point > to freed memory. Any other usage* is just wrong, and causes bugs**. > > * In this case: using the reference count to tell whether or not the > node is "in the tree" or "detached".
That's not what it's used for. Actually, it prevents nodes from disappearing from our property node memory representation -- which is the property tree. The old method was broken, and reverting to it is out of the question. Fixing the new one is, of course, desirable *if* it's broken. m. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
