Garbage collection

["Lyte _" <opa_script@...>]

Hello

I have some problems with adding a metatable to userdata for garbage 
collection. This is what I have now... When i start lua I do the following.

luaL_newmetatable(L, "LuaBook.gc_event");

/* set its __gc field */
lua_pushstring(L, "__gc");
lua_pushcfunction(L, gc_function);
lua_settable(L, -3);

I then call a factory function from lua which creates an object in C. I want 
to be able to free this object the right way when it is not used anymore, 
but it does not seem to work. This is what I do in the factory function.

lua_newuserdata(L,sizeof(...))
luaL_getmetatable(L, "LuaBook.gc_event");
lua_setmetatable(L, -2);'

In the Lua program, I then do something like this.

o = CreateObject()
o = nil
collectgarbage()

When I run this the function I added to the metatable does not get called. 
What am I doing wrong here?

Regards

- Lyte

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