Yeah Object>>#finalize is supposed to do what you said but unfortunately it does not work...

Maybe it's a VM bug or maybe it's not supported any more.��

We'll see if Eliot answer the thread.

2015-01-13 15:55 GMT+01:00 Johan Fabry <jfabry@dcc.uchile.cl>:

No, just putting the cleanup code in a finalize method does not seem to be working, sadly.

> On Jan 13, 2015, at 11:18, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
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> Object>>#finalize ?
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>> On 13 Jan 2015, at 15:13, Johan Fabry <jfabry@dcc.uchile.cl> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> does anybody here have experience with hooking into the GC mechanism so that an object gets notified when it is collected? I have a setup here with auto generated classes that I would like to remove when their unique instance disappears. So I���d like to let the GC figure out all the complicated tracking and inform me whenever such an object is collected, then I���ll zap the class as well.
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>> Experience reports, hints and tips are most welcome!
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