From: Peter Zotov <whitequark@...>
Date: 2011-05-25T20:34:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Impossible to enforce garbage collection

 On Wed, 25 May 2011 20:11:20 +0900, Robert Pankowecki wrote:
> http://pastie.org/1970654
>
> Can anyone tell me why the object created with finializer is not 
> garbage
> collected during GC.start executed in line 10 please ?
>
> Robert Pankowecki

 Because exceptions thrown in finalizers are silently ignored:
 http://rxr.whitequark.org/mri/source/gc.c#2862
 (note the last rb_protect).

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   WBR, Peter Zotov.