§ 28.3 Pointers and the Garbage Collector
kdevel
kdevel at vogtner.de
Sun Apr 7 11:41:57 UTC 2019
On Sunday, 7 April 2019 at 10:17:53 UTC, AltFunction1 wrote:
> On Sunday, 7 April 2019 at 10:05:26 UTC, kdevel wrote:
>> In § 28.3 Pointers and the Garbage Collector [1] we read
>>
>> Do not add or subtract an offset to a pointer such that the
>> result points
>> outside of the bounds of the garbage collected object
>> originally allocated.
>>
>> [...]
>
> No the foo() code would work in D too but in D since we have a
> true array type with ptr+length you should not write this kind
> of code, which is not @safe BTW.
I appreciate your constructive reply. What about the formal
validity wrt. to
the documentation? Is char *e = p + 10; outside of the bounds of
the garbage collected object? Does for (q = p; q < e; ++q) depend
on the ordering of pointers?
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