Strong Reference

In computer programming, a strong reference is a normal reference that protects the referred object from collection by a garbage collector. The term is used to distinguish the reference from weak references.

Memory management
Manual memory management
  • delete (C++)
  • C dynamic memory allocation
  • new (C++)
  • Static memory allocation
Virtual memory
  • Demand paging
  • Page table
  • Paging
Hardware
  • Memory management unit
  • Translation lookaside buffer
Garbage collection
  • Boehm garbage collector
  • Finalizer
  • Garbage
  • Mark-compact algorithm
  • Reference counting
  • Strong reference
  • Weak reference
Memory segmentation
  • Protected mode
  • Real mode
  • Virtual 8086 mode
  • x86 memory segmentation
Memory safety
  • Buffer overflow
  • Dangling pointer
  • Stack overflow
Issues
  • Fragmentation
  • Memory leak
  • Unreachable memory
Other
  • Automatic variable
  • International Symposium on Memory Management
  • Region-based memory management

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