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    <p>My current project has a mechanism that tracks/proxies C++ objects to safely expose them to a script environment. Part of its function is to be informed when a C++ object is destroyed so it can safely clean up references to that object in the script environment.</p> <p>To achieve this, I have defined the following class:</p> <pre><code>class DeleteEmitter { public: virtual ~DeleteEmitter() { onDelete.emit(); } sigc::signal&lt;void&gt; onDelete; }; </code></pre> <p>I then have any class that may need to be exposed to the script environment inherit from this class. When the proxy layer is invoked it connects a callback to the onDelete signal and is thus informed when the object is destroyed.</p> <p>Light testing shows that this works, but in live tests I'm seeing peculiar memory corruptions (read: crashes in malloc/free) in unrelated parts of the code. Running under valgrind suggests there may be a double-free or continued use of an object after its been freed, so its possible that there is an old bug in a class that was only exposed after DeleteEmitter was added to its inheritance hierarchy.</p> <p>During the course of my investigation it has occured to me that it might not be safe to emit a sigc++ signal during a destructor. Obviously it would be a bad thing to do if the callback tried to use the object being deleted, but I can confirm that is not what's happening here. Assuming that, does anyone know if this is a safe thing to do? And is there a more common pattern for achieving the same result?</p>
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