Re: [TCLCORE] Finalization vs. Exit

[Alexandre F. <ale...@gm...>]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Donal K. Fellows
<don...@ma...> wrote:
>
> Since nobody else has commented, I offer not insight, but rather
> encouragement. Finalization is a difficult area (to say the least) and
> it merits much study. Part of the difficulty is probably assembling a
> good enough set of use cases for all the things that finalization/exit
> has to cope with. Indeed, most problems in this area can be traced back
> to having an incomplete knowledge of what actually needs to be done.

Thanks Donal.

I could take a head start in that quest if specific
extension/embedding authors (or people familiar with popular ones)
were to step forward here and answer the following:

    What could go wrong in your extension/app if we restricted
Tcl_Exit() to just running (early) exit handlers and exiting ?

-Alex