RE: finalisers not being run

1999-12-10 Thread Simon Marlow
Meurig Sages writes: > I've got the following program. It depends heavily on > finalisers being run > regularly as it goes along. I therefore call yield regularly to try to > ensure this. > This works perfectly under the original ghc-4.04 release, > weak pointers are > garbage collected and fin

finalisers not being run

1999-12-10 Thread Meurig Sage
Hi, I've got the following program. It depends heavily on finalisers being run regularly as it goes along. I therefore call yield regularly to try to ensure this. This works perfectly under the original ghc-4.04 release, weak pointers are garbage collected and finalisers run regularly. However, w