Struct gc::Gc

pub struct Gc<T: Trace + ?Sized + 'static> {
    // some fields omitted
}

A garbage-collected pointer type over an immutable value.

See the module level documentation for more details.

Methods

impl<T: Trace> Gc<T>

fn new(value: T) -> Gc<T>

Constructs a new Gc<T>.

Collection

This method could trigger a Garbage Collection.

Examples

use gc::Gc;

let five = Gc::new(5);

Trait Implementations

impl<T: ?Sized> !Send for Gc<T>

impl<T: ?Sized> !Sync for Gc<T>

impl<T: Trace + ?Sized + Unsize<U>, U: Trace + ?Sized> CoerceUnsized<Gc<U>> for Gc<T>

impl<T: Trace + ?Sized> Trace for Gc<T>

unsafe fn trace(&self)

Mark all contained Gcs

unsafe fn root(&self)

Increment the root-count of all contained Gcs

unsafe fn unroot(&self)

Decrement the root-count of all contained Gcs

impl<T: Trace + ?Sized> Clone for Gc<T>

fn clone(&self) -> Gc<T>

Returns a copy of the value.

fn clone_from(&mut self, source: &Self)

Performs copy-assignment from source.

impl<T: Trace + ?Sized> Deref for Gc<T>

type Target = T

The resulting type after dereferencing

fn deref(&self) -> &T

The method called to dereference a value

impl<T: Trace + ?Sized> Drop for Gc<T>

fn drop(&mut self)

A method called when the value goes out of scope.

impl<T: Debug + Trace> Debug for Gc<T>

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.