On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Jim Ursetto <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:56 AM, felix winkelmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Jim Ursetto <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I am seeing finalizers fail to execute on recent SVN and I think
>>> it is the result of this change.  I backed out the patch and it works
>>> okay again.
>
>> Is the behaviour identical for compiled code?
>
> No, it works correctly for compiled code.  They trigger immediately
> after (gc #t).
>
> In interpreted code, the finalizers do not trigger at all, even when
> you exit csi via (exit).
>

Hm... I think this is related to the fact, that interpreter environments
are managed differently (the closure representation in the interpreter
is a simple linked list of environments, so it is possible that more indirect
references to finalizers are left. But this should work. Have to investigate.


cheers,
felix


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