Re: Collected objects still in table?

[Oliver Kroth <oliver.kroth@...>]

As far as I understood the GC operation, all objects for that a __gc 
function is called are put aside for another run of the GC which is 
performed after all __gc functions have been called.

Oliver

Am 21.03.2014 01:54, schrieb Rena:
> I've just noticed a strange issue with garbage collection in my Lua 
> code. The code is quite large, would be difficult to create a test 
> case, but the basics are:
>
> 1) Create a userdata object
> 2) Store it as a key in a table in the registry
> 3) Create more objects
> 4) Close the Lua state
> 5) The object created in step 1 is collected and its __gc is called
> 6) Other objects' __gc look in the table in the registry, and that 
> object is still there!
>
> How can __gc be called and the object not be removed from the table?
>
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