Re: Module finalization (along the lines of calling a function on exit)

[Antero Vipunen <antero@...>]

Salve!

 Simple test shows me that you are absolutely correct. __gc is invoked 
only for fulluserdata.
Ok. Then why not to do the following: create a userdata with proper 
__gc metametod(it's only destiny will be to assure the proper 
finalization), and assign it to some field of module, or set as upvalue 
for one of the module functions(for example Z_init()). When the module 
gets collected then so does it's fields...

AMDG,
 Antero Vipunen.


Vijay Aswadhati wrote:

> Most of the code that I have seen for __gc is a bit different from the use case
> I have. I understand the part of __gc function being a metamethod and hence can
> only be set on the metatable.  But the __gc method will only be invoked for
> fulluserdata and not for a regular table -- is that correct?