Re: Local var passed to thread. May it get reclaimed by GC???

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From: Jon Skeet [C# MVP] (skeet_at_pobox.com)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:42:01 +0100

Bob Rock <pelledoca@letterboxes-dot-org.no-spam.invalid> wrote:
> my questiong is, I believe, very simple.
> I have a method and inside it I'm passing a local variable (of a
> reference type) to a newly created thread (created inside the method
> itself). Since the method may end while the thread may not have yet
> completed its work, I was wondering if anything must be done to avoid
> the garbage collector reclaiming the variable before the thread has
> completed.

If the other thread has a reference to the object, you needn't worry
about the garbage collector reclaiming it early. 

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