On 2013-06-27, at 01:08, Paul DeBruicker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sven & Camillo, > > Ok thanks. And using the PointerFinder is there a way to know which of > the pointers points to the SystemDictionary or Object someObject or > whereever the GC begins so one would not have to check every pointer for > every stubborn object. > > E.g. Lets say I've nil'ed the reference between the Navy and the ship so > its ready to go but a few of the soldiers on the ship have references to > other ships because their transfer papers weren't processed properly. > Running #pointersTo on those soldiers gives a large collection of > pointers. > > > How can I use the computer to filter that list to just those references > back to the root object? What do you mean by root object? In any case, if I'm not mistaken, this isn't that easy. Usually you have to manually track down and follow the objects in the PointerExplorer => Inspect an Object, right click, Explore Strong Pointers
