<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On Jan 26, 2015, at 8:10 PM, Rui Ueyama <<a href="mailto:ruiu@google.com">ruiu@google.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><p dir="ltr">I think it's not for garbage collection. Because all atoms in the same section are already connected with LayoutAfter references, they are treated as a group by the garbage collector.</p></blockquote><div>Well, the first atom in the section has nothing before it, so it has nothing holding on to it. </div><div><br></div><div>More generally, if all you have is a after-chain and the only atom referenced from outside the section is the Nth atom, then dead stripping could remove atoms 1 thru N-1.</div><div><br></div><div>-Nick</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite">
<div class="gmail_quote">2015/01/26 19:25 "Shankar Easwaran" <<a href="mailto:shankar.kalpathi.easwaran@gmail.com">shankar.kalpathi.easwaran@gmail.com</a>>:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This is mainly relevant when you turn on garbage collection as Nick pointed out. You can refer to an atom in a section but to keep the section to be consistent w.r.t ELF you have to keep all the remaining atoms together.<br>
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