note
	description: "Perform cleanup operations before current instance is reclaimed by garbage collection."
	library: "Free implementation of ELKS library"
	status: "See notice at end of class."
	legal: "See notice at end of class."
	date: "$Date$"
	revision: "$Revision$"

deferred class
	DISPOSABLE

feature -- Removal

	dispose
			-- Action to be executed just before garbage collection
			-- reclaims an object.
			-- Effect it in descendants to perform specific dispose
			-- actions. Those actions should only take care of freeing
			-- external resources; they should not perform remote calls
			-- on other objects since these may also be dead and reclaimed.
		deferred
		end

feature {NONE} -- Status report

	is_in_final_collect: BOOLEAN
			-- Is GC currently performing final collection
			-- after execution of current program?
			-- Safe to use in `dispose'.
		external
			"C inline use %"eif_memory.h%""
		alias
			"return eif_is_in_final_collect;"
		end
	
note
	copyright: "Copyright (c) 1984-2012, Eiffel Software and others"
	license:   "Eiffel Forum License v2 (see http://www.eiffel.com/licensing/forum.txt)"
	source: "[
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end