GC: finalization order?!

[Johannes Pfau]

Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>IIRC, class destructors aren't supposed to reference any references or
>pointers to the heap. They're intended for cleaning up other
>resources. I don't think that there are any guarantees with regards to
>the order of the destruction of objects which are being garbage
>collected. But I don't mess with destructors much, so I'm not all that
>well versed in the details.
>
>- Jonathan M Davis

I think destructors shouldn't use references to the _garbage collected_
heap. Freeing resources which were allocated with malloc should work.
In fact freeing C memory is the only usecase for destructors I can
think of. If you rely on destructors to release file handles / gpu
textures / other limited resources you risk to run out of those.

-- 
Johannes Pfau
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