Re: Userdata memory is not freed

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> When a userdata has a __gc method, the first collection triggers the
> finalizer, but the object is still alive (because the finalizer gets it
> as a parameter, and may even resurect it). Only the next collection will
> free the object. (Java has a similar behavior.)

Oh, thanks, didn't know that (should it be mentioned in the Manual?)
And why Luiz had different results then?

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Shmuel