Freeing of memory (garbage collection)

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Daniel White <twinbee42 at skytopia.com> wrote:
> Thanks for that reply. I wonder if extending automatic garbage
> collection for malloced memory would be a good idea...

That would be a bad idea.  Then how would you do manual memory
management in the few cases that absolutely require it?

>> Only stuff like dynamic
>> arrays, AAs and new'ed stuff gets cleaned up by the GC.
>
> For the above types of allocating memory, is there a way to 'lock' a
> variable and say to D, "don't free this memory until I allow you to",
> and also for it to allow you to free it manually when/if need be?

Yes, you can use std.gc.addRoot in Phobos (in D1), and GC.addRoot if
you're using Tango (import tango.core.Memory) or D2 (import
core.memory).