Re: [PATCH] At-exit hook

[Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com>]

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Hi all,

I've come to the conclusion that this problem is unsolvable and I will
abandon the idea of an at-exit-hook. The most serious potential consequence
of running it in really_cleanup_for_exit(), which is indirectly invoked
through atexit(), is that the resources to clean up or the Guile library
itself has already been deallocated.

Also, calling it from scm_boot_guile is a half measure since the
application might exit from main_func(). I thank Chris and Maxime for
pointing out the problems.

I actually think that I tried to do this (introduce an at-exit-hook) 25
years ago, with the same eventual realizations, but didn't recall that at
first. Brace for 2050! :-))

Best regards,
Mikael

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