Re: Lua and C++ memory

["Thomas Lefort" <thomas.lefort@...>]

On Nov 21, 2007 3:14 AM, Pixel Pusher <pixpush@gmail.com> wrote:
> I imagine that if no __gc metamethods is given to userdata, as you showed,
> the garbage collector never collects the "local" references to that class
> throughout the scripts, is that correct ?

Not correct, full userdata are collected even if they don't have a
__gc. Of course if your userdata holds external resources, you need to
define a __gc finalizer to release them after the userdata itself is
collected: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2.10.1

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-- Thomas