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Re: about reference counter

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 17:45 -0400, lml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> So what is the real purpose of using reference counter? It cannot protect other
> members in the object. Looks like it is only used to check if the object needed
> to be freed (when the counter is 0)? right? Can you give an example?

Yes.  More specifically, you could look at it as ensuring that the
object is _not_ freed until no one has a reference to it any more.

	Robert Love



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