Subj : Re: GC Question
To   : MA
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Mon May 24 2004 11:48 am

MA wrote:

>   So can any body clarify the situation? Is vp already rooted or not?

It's not.  http://www.mozilla.org/js/spidermonkey/gctips.html says what 
the local roots are, and vp is not among them.

> And if
> it is not rooted, will it be rooted as soon as my function returns, 
> (because I am storing a new object I create in *vp and the object needs to be 
> rooted.)?

Yes, it will be rooted after the getter returns.

Did you really nest a GC within code that followed

	array = JS_NewArrayObject(cx, 0, NULL);
	*vp = OBJECT_TO_JSVAL(array);

or did the GC run on another thread?  If so, the native function 
containing the excerpt cited above must have suspended its request (are 
you using JS_BeginRequest, etc., if you define JS_THREADSAFE?).

/be

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