Re: memory leak or not?

From: Jon Skeet [C# MVP] <skeet@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 22:18:56 -0000

Marina Levit [MVP] <someone@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No, when the variable is out of scope, it becomes eligible for garbage
collection.

In this particular case it's true, but in a more general case it can be
earlier. For instance:

void Foo()
{
string x = GrabSomeLongString();
Console.WriteLine (x.Length);

// Lots more code here

// Nothing referring to x

// End of method
}

The variable "x" does not prevent the long string from being garbage
collected (in release mode) before the end of the method, even though
it's still in scope.

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