toStringz in std.file

Ilya Yaroshenko ilyayaroshenko at gmail.com
Wed Jan 29 05:44:44 PST 2014


On Wednesday, 29 January 2014 at 08:29:42 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 January 2014 at 08:27:14 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko 
> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Why in std.file toStringz used without store a pointer in
>> function body to prevent GC collection?
>>
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master/std/file.d
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Ilya
>
> It is assumed that the pointer is not moved to the C heap where 
> the GC can't see it. The stack is the stack; it doesn't matter 
> if it's a D or C function, the GC sees it anyway.

Thanks!


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