Clear big AAs

[David Nadlinger]

I realize that this might sound strange, but try setting myAA to null 
after clear(), this should fix the crash.

David


On 5/31/11 4:00 PM, useo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to clear big associative arrays, but I always get an
> object error - what I currently doing is:
>
> private string[uint] myAA;
>
> void main() {
>
>     fill(myAA);
>     myAA.clear();
>     fill(myAA); // object.Error: Access Violation
> }
>
> void fill(string[uint] aa) {
>     for (uint i = 0; i<  10_000_000_000; i++) {
>        myAA[i] = std.conv.to!(string)(i);
>     }
> }
>
> I already saw the bug report at http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/
> digitalmars/D/bugs/
> Issue_5683_New_Calling_.clear_on_a_fresh_associative_array_causes_subsequent_segfault_28632.html
> and I'm also using 2.052 - as I saw at the change-log of 2.053 it's
> also unfixed. So... is there any solution to clear associative arrays
> without memory leaking?