Garbage Collection, Allocators/Deallocators and

[Simen kjaeraas]

Ivo Kasiuk <i.kasiuk at gmx.de> wrote:

> Ok, that makes sense. So the deallocators really should not get called
> in this case. But why are the destructors not invoked when the GC
> finalizes the objects?

For S1 and S2, this is a known bug - destructors of structs on the heap
don't get called.

As for C1, I have no idea what's happening. Definitely a bug, though.


> Exploring the example a bit further:
> If C's malloc is used instead of GC.malloc then the deallocators also
> are not called and the program runs out of memory. How are the objects
> supposed to get finalized in this case - do I have to use the delete
> keyword explicitly?

If you use C's malloc, you will also have to use C's free.

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Simen