[stringtemplate-interest] what is the use for embeddedInstances ?

[Terence Parr]

thanks! just added bug:

http://www.antlr.org:8888/browse/ST-39

Ter
On Jun 2, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Jax Law wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In StringTemplate.java, what is the purpose of the LinkedList
> embeddedInstances ?
> I've searched the source tree and there is no usage of this  
> LinkedList.
> We've found
> an obscure memory leak issue with embeddedInstances where the list  
> has grown
> to 10 million entries. The issue is that when
> StringTemplate.getInstanceOf() method
> is called, the copy it returns is not a true deep copy. It has many
> references to the
> original StringTemplate via the chunks Expr, StringTemplateAST ...etc.
> One of
> these references is accessible to a write() method call stack and thus
> build up the
> embeddedInstances LinkedList.
>
> Since no usage can be found, I am assuming we can make  
> addEmbeddedInstance
> a No-Op in our own build ?
>
> Thanks !
>
> Jax
>
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