Re: PDD 2, vtables

[Alan Burlison]

Dan Sugalski wrote:

> >If PMC is a pointer to a structure, "new" will need to allocate memory for a
> >new structure, and hence the value of mypmc will have to change.
> 
> Nope. PMC structures will be parcelled out from arenas and not malloc'd,
> and they won't be freed and re-malloced much. If we're passing in a PMC
> pointer, we won't be reallocating the memory pointed to--rather we'll be
> reusing it.

So how do you get hold of a PMC from the arena in the first place?

Alan Burlison