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Re: Garbage collector vs variable lifetime
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Re: Garbage collector vs variable lifetime


  • Subject: Re: Garbage collector vs variable lifetime
  • From: Jean-Daniel Dupas <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 21:07:49 +0200


Le 7 juin 08 à 20:30, Michael Ash a écrit :

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Ricky Sharp <email@hidden> wrote:
I will hope though that within the context of say memcpy, that the GC thread
could not collect data. For example, the following should be safe:


memcpy(myLocalGCAwareBuffer, [data bytes], numberOfBytes);

Not at all. The semantics of this is identical to the semantics of just writing your own loop. Nothing guarantees that the data pointer stays on the stack during the memcpy. If nothing else references the data then you *must* either ensure that a reference stays on the stack (by, for example, messaging it afterwards) or you must disable collection for it until you're done with its contents.


This is not a problem, just replace thoses two calls by a single method invocation: -[NSData getBytes:buffer length:length];


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