GC leak?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Michael Sperber writes:
 > Marcus Crestani <crestani at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

 > > Currently the garbage collector does not run the finalizers when
 > > XEmacs exits.  This is bad, we should definitely fix this.  I see if I
 > > can come up with a patch in the next couple of days.
 > 
 > This kind of stuff can't work in general.  (Even though the assumption
 > that it can be done is common, and was made in the early Java versions.)
 > For the gory details, see:
 > 
 > http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2002/HPL-2002-335.ps

Note that (AFAICT IANAL) the "gory details" do point out that if it's
simply a matter of releasing system resources, these problems don't
arise.  I don't know whether it's feasible to make that distinction in
Lisp, though.

The claim is also made that "in well-written code" only one line in
10000 should refer to finalization.  Is that true of XEmacs?