Thank you for useful answers!
>>> P.P.S. How to get to know that __gc metamethod has been called for
>>> this particular userdata from C code?
> A common approach is to set the pointer in your full userdata to `NULL`
> in your finalizer.
This part I just was looking for.
(to add some additional asserts in my code)
In experiments I noticed that sometimes
the __gc call happens slightly after a weak value is removed from the table
and in this gap a new value may be created.
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Vyacheslav Napadovsky