Adding pointers to GC with destructers
Freddy via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Mon Apr 20 16:02:11 PDT 2015
On Monday, 20 April 2015 at 22:24:53 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 04/20/2015 02:48 PM, Freddy wrote:
>> On Monday, 20 April 2015 at 02:56:35 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>>> Not automatically. Check out addRange and addRoot:
>>>
>>> http://dlang.org/phobos/core_memory.html
>>>
>>> Ali
>> The destructor doesn't seem to be running
>
> Sorry, I misunderstood you. You can use a RAII object as ketmar
> said:
>
> import std.stdio;
> import std.c.stdlib;
>
> struct Test{
> void* ptr;
>
> ~this(){
> writeln("free: ",&this);
> free(ptr);
> }
> }
>
> void main(){
> auto ptr=cast(Test*)malloc(4);
> writeln("create: ",ptr);
>
> auto test = Test(ptr); // <-- The dtor of this object will
> free
> }
>
> Ali
I believe your original understanding was right.I want to have
HiddenType* be garbage collected and finalized(freed,destructed)
when no more references to it are found(stack or heap). I could
use reference counting but it seems inefficient for a program
rarely collecting and constantly coping.
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