Fix access violation exception on shutdown by Frawak · Pull Request #2386 · pythonnet/pythonnet
When nulling the GC handles on shutdown the reference count of all objects pointed to by the IntPtr in the `CLRObject.reflectedObjects` are zero. This caused an exception in some scenarios because `Runtime.PyObject_TYPE(reflectedClrObject)` is called while the reference counter is at zero. After `TypeManager.RemoveTypes();` is called in the `Runtime.Shutdown()` method, reference count decrements to zero do not invoke `ClassBase.tp_clear` for managed objects anymore which normally is responsible for removing references from `CLRObject.reflectedObjects`. Collecting objects referenced in `CLRObject.reflectedObjects` only after leads to an unstable state in which the reference count for these object addresses is zero while still maintaining them to be used for further pseudo-cleanup. In that time, the memory could have been reclaimed already which leads to the exception.
Otherwise if you have a Python object that needs to temporarily create a .NET object in its destructor (for instance write log summary to a file), its destructor will fail if it happens to be freed on the second iteration of loop breaking.
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