Stunt and recursive anon object references

[Leviathan-7]

i understand that stunt anonymous objects are killed when they're no longer referenced but i noticed that i could set a property of an anonymous object to itself. after loading it with a lot of junk data to bloat it in size and removing the only 'real' reference to it, i noticed the next checkpoint didn't bring down the disk size to a number near the size of the anonymous object. is there any way to clear out anonymous objects that only have references to them in their own data?

[Leviathan-7]

nevermind, i discovered that on startup such objects are removed.

[Todd Sundsted]

you should also be able to force a garbage collection run by invoking `run_gc()` as a wizard

[Leviathan-7]

very handy, thank you!

[Leviathan-7]

is there a list of these functions? i can't find one.

[Todd Sundsted]

The documentation/manual still needs some work.

[Leviathan-7]

on the chance you know off the top of your head, what can cause anonymous objects to invalidate? it seems that out of nowhere, ones existing in properties on my player object just lose their parent, by which i mean attempting to call parent() on them returns E_INVARG.

[Leviathan-7]

more specifically, it appears as if they're recycled despite them not being de-referenced

[Leviathan-7]

i think i figured it out; adding a property to a parent of an anonymous object invalidates it instantly and so does removing a property from that parent. unfortunate but i'm assuming there's a good reason why

[Todd Sundsted]

The answer is in the other thread. Bottom line, it's not trivial to correctly fix up anonymous children when parent properties change.