On May 4, 2012, at 7:28 AM, Denis Shelomovskij wrote: > This idea is too obvious and I suppose I'm the only one not knowing it, but I > have never seen it's implementation. Why? > > The idea: > 1. `Object` class has hidden `isAlive` field which is true since construction > and up to finalization. > 2. Every method asserts that the object is alive first. > 3. There is an `finalize` function that just rt_finalize an object in debug > mode but can even free memory in release mode.
rt_finalize currently nulls out the vtbl pointer, which can server as an isAlive flag if desired.
