Finding object references

Ross Boylan RossBoylan at stanfordalumni.org
Sat Jul 3 17:05:02 UTC 2004


On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 09:58:02AM -0700, Avi Bryant wrote:
> 
> On Jul 3, 2004, at 8:51 AM, Nevin Pratt wrote:
> 
> >With VisualWorks, I can find references to any object via:
> >
> >  self allOwnersWeakly: true
> >
> >This helps tremendously in tracking down why objects don't get garbage  
> >collected.
> >
> >How do you find object references in Squeak?
> 
> My favorite way is with the PointerExplorer:
> 
> http://map1.squeakfoundation.org/sm/package/1508934b-79ea-4216-956c 
> -1948e9d48aad
> 
> Avi
> 

See also the "Going to the Root" section of  
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2176

I just added the info on PointerExplorer to it.



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