Symbol allInstances
nicolas cellier
ncellier at ifrance.com
Tue Jul 31 07:14:24 UTC 2007
Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Browsing through a 3.9 image I found three senders of Symbol
> allInstances which store the result in a temp during image segment
> export:
> ImageSegment >> #copySmartRootsExport:
> CodeLoader >> #exportCodeSegment:classes:keepSource:
> SystemDictionary >> #writeImageSegmentsFrom:withKernel:
> Is this a problem?
>
> Cheers
> Philippe
>
Yes, Symbol is now an abstract class.
Symbol allInstances size = 0.
There are only ByteSymbol or WideSymbol in the image.
If goal is to create strong pointers as mentionned in comment, then Symbol
allSubInstances would be better.
Nicolas
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