We already run all finalizers after exitScheduler: https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/rts/RtsStartup.c#L382-L388
so no need to run GC for that. Ömer 2018-04-06 17:06 GMT+03:00 Edward Z. Yang <ezy...@mit.edu>: > I believe it's so that we can run finalizers before shutdown. > > Excerpts from Ömer Sinan Ağacan's message of 2018-04-06 16:49:41 +0300: >> Hi, >> >> I'm wondering why we run GC in this line: >> >> https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/rts/Schedule.c#L2670 >> >> I went back in commit history using git blame and found the commit that >> introduced that line (5638488ba28), but it didn't help. Does anyone know why >> we >> need that line? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Ömer _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
