When this will be freed?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2014-04-02 17:45, Andrea Fontana wrote:

> auto example(char* test) { return toStringz(to!string(test) ~ " world!"); }
>
> When that return string will be freed?

When there is no reference left to the string, the garbage collector is 
free to collect it when it chooses to.

> What about:
>
> extern(C) auto example(....)

Same as above, extern(C) does not change how memory is collected. If it 
is a C function, then it depends entirely on that particular function.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg