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"Marisha Ray & Neil Jerram" <mpriz@dircon.co.uk> writes: > This sounds scary, but I think that's probably because I don't quite > understand the issue. Is it that garbage can be incorrectly retained when a > program includes pointer-like values, or that live objects can be > incorrectly garbaged? If the former, how could anyone die because of it? It's the former, and in bad cases it could lead to memory exhaused, so at least the program could die. The system could die depending on how it handles overcommitment of memory. I suppose someone could die if said system was controlling their respirator. -- Harvey J. Stein BFM Financial Research hjstein@bfr.co.il