[ruby-talk:04287] Re: ObjectSpace.add_finalizer?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:04286] ObjectSpace.add_finalizer?"
    on 00/08/01, Robert Feldt <[e-mail]> writes:

|I figured I might track the problem down by printing out all objects
|before they are GC'ed with something like:
|
|# Add a finalizer that will print all objects to be finalized
|print_object = proc{ |id|
|  print "GC finalizing #{id} (%s)\n" % ObjectSpace._id2ref(id).inspect
|}
|ObjectSpace.add_finalizer(print_object)
|
|but nothing is ever printed on stdout.

You have to invoke call_finalizer(obj) to arrange finalizer to be
called upon which object (I know it's a bad name).  In addition,
_id2ref(id) may not work, since finalizers are executed AFTER object
destruction.

							matz.