On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Lukas Renggli <[email protected]> wrote:

> >>> Any ideas where this black magic comes from ?
> >>
> >> From what I know Symbols always end up in the out-pointers because
> >> they are always referenced at least from the Symbol table.
> >
> > Not necessarily. The symbol table is a *weak* set and hence if you don't
> strongly hold onto the symbols they get into the segment array and not into
> the out pointers! This is a potential source of subtle problems because
> after loading the segment you end up with duplicated symbols (we run into
> this with Cmsbox...). The easiest solution is to create a temporary variable
> and assign "Symbol allSymbols" while creating a segment.
>
> Ok, but that is done at several places in ImageSegement.
>
>
I "fixed" this. Actually, I don't fix it, but I put in at least only one
place that fix for everybody (I think).

Thanks for the tipo of ReferenceStream>>#readSymbol.    however...I debug it
and have empy symbols...wierd. Now I am very dead, but I hope tomorrow to
check it more in depth.


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