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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Hendrik Tews <hendrik.tews@kernkonzept.com>
Cc: 42013@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42013: 26.3; hash tables are not garbage collected
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:14:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0vi790j.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zh8uwxn3.fsf@cert.kernkonzept.com> (Hendrik Tews's message of "Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:20:32 +0200")

On Jun 23 2020, Hendrik Tews wrote:

> With emacs -Q it returns ((vec2 5) (sym2 1) (vec1 5) (sym1 1)),
> while I was expecting ((vec2 0) (sym2 0) ...).

The garbage collector is conservative, so objects may not be collected
immediately, even if they appear unreferenced.

Andreas.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-22 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-22 22:20 bug#42013: 26.3; hash tables are not garbage collected Hendrik Tews
2020-10-17 10:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-21 12:47   ` Hendrik Tews
2020-10-22 11:22     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-22 12:14 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2020-10-22 15:15   ` Hendrik Tews
2021-09-16 15:13     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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