Re: [hoc-devel] withAutoreleasePool in finalizers

[Daniel R. <da...@ph...>]

On Aug 26, 2008, at 5:36 AM, Gustav Munkby wrote:

> The issue is that the finalizers are being executed in their own  
> thread,
> and Cocoa needs autorelease pools to be established in each thread.
> The finalizers are not executed after the application finishes, but  
> rather
> during Haskell garbage collection.

Ah.  I hadn't realized there was a separate system thread for garbage  
collection (I thought it was only a lightweight thread).  That's what  
I get for being new to HOC...

> That is a completely different can-of-worms, which would indeed  
> solve this
> issue. However, having both Haskell and Objective-C run their own  
> garbage
> collectors would supposedly require even more "Arcane Magic".

Indeed.  Though from what I've been able to gather, it should be  
possible.  I went ahead and applied your patch.  Even if there was a  
way to install an autorelease pool in the garbage collector thread,  
it's probably not what I want, since the garbage collector thread  
never exits.

-- 
Daniel