On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:31:04PM -0600, Terence Ripperda wrote:
> this is probably a stupid question, but how are weak references
> used?
the linker sets them to zero, so "if (foo) { ... }" works nicely
it does mean if a module that set foo to non-zero is loaded, we need
to zero it again when it's unloaded or else we have stale bogus
pointers left around
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