Quote: actions performed "at garbage-collection time" may occur any time between the object's last use and program termination; must execute under an unknown state

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Note also that actions performed "at garbage-collection time" … object and "the end of the program." This … again makes such actions hard to program correctly … [This] can be solved by providing a registration … address and a pointer to a "cleanup" function … the registration server is destroyed ("at the end …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: use a registration server instead of garbage-collection; register an object for cleanup at program termination; remove registration if object is explicitly terminated

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