Bug #21173: RUBY_FREE_AT_EXIT does not work when error in -r

• Status: Open
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• Backport: 3.1: DONTNEED, 3.2: DONTNEED, 3.3: DONTNEED, 3.4: REQUIRED

[peterzhu2118 (Peter Zhu)]

PR: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/12859

When loading a file using the command line -r, it is processed before RUBY_FREE_AT_EXIT is checked. So if the loaded file raises an error, it will cause memory to not be freed with RUBY_FREE_AT_EXIT.

For example ruby -rtest.rb -e "" will report a large amount of memory leaks if test.rb raises.