GC handles circular dependencies. So you should have an extra pointer
pointing to one of your circular elements.
Le 30/11/15 12:22, Dimitris Chloupis a écrit :
and of course you are both correct , I have a circular reference,
basically an object A referencing object B which references object
A. No wonder why is not gc. Thanks for helping me out spotting this.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 12:56 PM Ferlicot D. Cyril
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Le 30/11/2015 11:40, Dimitris Chloupis a écrit :
> I am wondering when an instance of a class is garbage collected and
> deleted from the system.
>
> is there a way to manually deleted it ?
If there is no Object that reference your object you can force a
Garbage
collect with "Smalltalk garbageCollect". If your object is still here
you can try to see what point to it with "(X allInstances
collectAsSet:
#pointersTo) inspect".
When the reference is spotted you can try to remove it then garbage
collect again.
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