bug#34404: 26.1; Finalizer in hash table run early?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> The question is how do you define "100%"?  The Emacs GC is
> conservative in the sense that when there's a doubt whether an object
> _could_ be still referenced, we mark it so it doesn't get swept.

When is Emacs in doubt?  :-)  If we could say something about this in
the manual (or the `garbage-collect' doc string), I think that'd be
helpful -- people do seem to think that calling `garbage-collect' is
guaranteed to collect all the garbage.

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