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On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 17:48:01 +0100, Raphael Manfredi wrote: ># I don't understand the way Perl garbage collects its memory when it dies. ># It does not systematically call registered destructors (DESTROY) on objects. This would be a bug. If you have a short test case, that would be good to see. ># At least with 5.005_03, which was the version in use when I wrote this. ># The global destruction cleanup is not as systematic as it could be, which makes it possible for destructors to reference freed memory in the current implementation, because the current implementation ignores reference counts during global destruction phase. I think a saner way is possible. Search the archives for "global destruction" for details. Sarathy gsar@ActiveState.comThread Previous | Thread Next