Subj : Re: help with GC
To   : Jashin Eugene <johny5@alawar.com>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Tue Sep 16 2003 10:13 am

Jashin Eugene wrote:

>ok, i already understood that i must call JS_AddRoot(cx, &gc_obj); instead
>of..
>but can gc_obj variable be a stack variable?
>  
>

Sure, why not?  You can take the address of a stack variable.  You need 
to JS_RemoveRoot that pointer by reference before it goes out of scope, 
of course.

If you need a root only locally, perhaps you can use a local root.  See 
http://www.mozilla.org/js/spidermonkey/gctips.html.

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