[Python-Dev] Re: [PythonLabs] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Modules gcmodule.c,2.33.6.5,2.33.6.6 (original) (raw)

Jeremy Hylton jeremy@zope.com
04 Apr 2003 13:26:11 -0500

On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 12:39, Jeremy Hylton wrote:

On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 11:46, Jeremy Hylton wrote: > I think a safe approach would be to move everything out of unreachable > and into either "collectable" or "finalizers". That way, we can do a > while (!gclistisempty(unreachable)) loop and always deal with the > head of the unreachable list. Each time through the loop, the head of > the list can be moved to collectable or finalizers or become unlinked, > so we always make progress. > > Sound plausible?

Yes. I've got a patch that fixes the boom case, but I'm not sure I've handled the case where the object becomes reachable as a result of running PyObjectHasAttr(). I'll post after testing that.

It's SF patch 715446.

There's a lingering problem with test_gc, but I hope it's tractable.

Jeremy