How to free memory allocated via double[][] using dmd-2.0.12?

[Markus Dittrich]

Regan Heath Wrote:

> Did you try just setting the array reference to null.  This should make 
> the contents of the array unreachable and therefore it should be 
> collected when you next allocate (and run short on memory).
> 
> i.e.
> 
> int main()
> {
>      double[][] myLargeDataset;
>      while (some condition)
>      {
> 	 myLargeDataset = read_data();
>           process_data(myLargeDataset);
>           myLargeDataset = null;
>       }
> 
>     return 0;
> }
> 
> Regan

Thanks for the hint. I just tried this again just to make sure and also
tried plopping an std.gc.fullCollect() right after to force the GC to 
collect. In both cases I can watch memory consumption grow continuously
with the system running out of memory eventually. Maybe its a GC bug?

Markus