Subj : Garbage collection
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Jochen Stier
Date : Fri Sep 03 2004 11:11 am

Hi, I am doing the following....

    sJSRuntime = JS_NewRuntime(0x100000);
    sJSContext = JS_NewContext(sJSRuntime, 0x1000);
    sJSProto = JS_NewObject(sJSContext, &sJSClass, NULL, NULL);

    JS_AddRoot(sJSContext, &sJSProto);

    for (int j=0; j<10; j++)
    {
        JS_NewObject(sJSContext, &testClass, 0, sJSProto);
    }

    JS_GC();

What happens is that 10 object are being gc-ed, allthough they are a "child"
of sJSProto. Am I missing something
here ? How can I protect the 10 objects from being gc-ed themselves. I
cannot use JS_AddRoot within the loop
because &lObject is always the same ....

    for (int j=0; j<10; j++)
    {
        JSObject* lObject = JS_NewObject(sJSContext, &testClass, 0,
sJSProto);
        JS_AddRoot(sJSContext, &lObject );
    }

Basically I am trying to build a cache of objects during startup and new
delete them till shutdown.


Cheers
Jochen

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