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authorAaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>2019-10-17 11:37:32 -0700
committerAaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>2019-10-28 14:50:36 -0700
commit60a7f9f446604571f8a81499080c57c47baf0e6b (patch)
treebe5f16cdce95b0042cdc943e1ee1750fd0f1e7dc /bin
parent6147fa82a923e7318f493857023006801ed25eb5 (diff)
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Protect finalizer references during execution
When we run finalizers we have to copy all of the finalizers to a new data structure because a finalizer could add another finalizer and we need to keep draining the "real" finalizer table until it's empty. We don't want Ruby programs to mutate the finalizers that we're iterating over as well. Before this commit we would copy the finalizers in to a linked list. The problem with this approach is that if compaction happens, the linked list will need to be updated. But the GC doesn't know about the existence of the linked list, so it could not update references. This commit changes the linked list to be a Ruby array so that when compaction happens, the arrays will automatically be updated and all references remain valid.
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