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 	<h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Path to GC Roots</h1>


 	<div class="body refbody"><p class="shortdesc">Find out who is keeping alive a single object.
 	</p>

 		<div class="section"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Motivation</h2>

 			<p class="p">Having found an expensive object it is then important to find all the reasons it is kept alive.</p>

 		</div>

 		<div class="section"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Arguments</h2>

 			<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" border="1" class="simpletable"><col style="width:50%" /><col style="width:50%" /><thead><tr class="sthead">
 					<th style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:left;" id="d8051e47" class="stentry">Argument</th>

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 					<td style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8051e47" class="stentry">object</td>

 					<td style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8051e50" class="stentry">One object for which the paths to GC roots should be found.</td>

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 					<td style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8051e47" class="stentry"><span class="keyword parmname">-excludes</span></td>

 					<td style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8051e50" class="stentry">Fields of certain classes which should be ignored when finding paths. For example this allows paths through Weak or Soft Reference referents to be ignored.
 					This is of the format <var class="keyword varname">class name pattern</var>[:<var class="keyword varname">field name</var>[,<var class="keyword varname">field name</var>]*].
 					Subclasses of the class are also included.
 					If no field names are specified for the class then all fields are excluded.
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 					<td style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8051e47" class="stentry"><span class="keyword parmname">-numberofpaths</span></td>

 					<td style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8051e50" class="stentry">The number of different paths to be displayed.</td>

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 		<div class="section" id="ref_inspections_path_to_gc_roots__result"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Result</h2>

 			<img class="image" src="../../gettingstarted/basictutorial_path.png" alt="A tree view showing paths to a field object." />
 			<div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> With the arrows in each <a class="xref" href="../iconassist.html">
 				<img class="image" src="../../mimes/i-horefabove.png" alt="Icon of a piece of paper with an arrow at the top left pointing up and to the left." />
 				icon</a> points up and to the left, showing
 			that the field in <strong class="ph b">bold</strong> of the object of a line actually refers
 			to the preceding object in the tree view which is up and to the left.</div>

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	<h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Path to GC Roots</h1>




	<div class="body refbody"><p class="shortdesc">Find out who is keeping alive a single object.
	</p>

	<div class="section"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Motivation</h2>

	<p class="p">Having found an expensive object it is then important to find all the reasons it is kept alive.</p>

	</div>

	<div class="section"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Arguments</h2>

	<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" border="1" class="simpletable"><col style="width:50%" /><col style="width:50%" /><thead><tr class="sthead">
	<th style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:left;" id="d8051e47" class="stentry">Argument</th>

	<th style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:left;" id="d8051e50" class="stentry">Description</th>

	</tr>
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	<td style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8051e47" class="stentry">object</td>

	<td style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8051e50" class="stentry">One object for which the paths to GC roots should be found.</td>

	</tr>
	<tr class="strow">
	<td style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8051e47" class="stentry"><span class="keyword parmname">-excludes</span></td>

	<td style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8051e50" class="stentry">Fields of certain classes which should be ignored when finding paths. For example this allows paths through Weak or Soft Reference referents to be ignored.
	This is of the format <var class="keyword varname">class name pattern</var>[:<var class="keyword varname">field name</var>[,<var class="keyword varname">field name</var>]*].
	Subclasses of the class are also included.
	If no field names are specified for the class then all fields are excluded.
	</td>

	</tr>
	<tr class="strow">
	<td style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8051e47" class="stentry"><span class="keyword parmname">-numberofpaths</span></td>

	<td style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8051e50" class="stentry">The number of different paths to be displayed.</td>

	</tr>
	</tbody></table>

	</div>

	<div class="section" id="ref_inspections_path_to_gc_roots__result"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Result</h2>

	<img class="image" src="../../gettingstarted/basictutorial_path.png" alt="A tree view showing paths to a field object." />
	<div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> With the arrows in each <a class="xref" href="../iconassist.html">
	<img class="image" src="../../mimes/i-horefabove.png" alt="Icon of a piece of paper with an arrow at the top left pointing up and to the left." />
	icon</a> points up and to the left, showing
	that the field in <strong class="ph b">bold</strong> of the object of a line actually refers
	to the preceding object in the tree view which is up and to the left.</div>

	</div>

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