Array Capacity Field

[Nick B]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> dsimcha wrote:
>> According to the Phobos docs, std.gc.capacity "Returns capacity (size 
>> of the
>> memory block) that p  points to the beginning of. If p does not point 
>> into the gc
>> memory pool, or does not point to the beginning of an allocated memory 
>> block, 0 is
>> returned."  I had looked through this before.
> 
> Right.  And since resizing an interior slice "in place" is typically 
> undesirable, this does exactly what you want.  If you really want the 
> capacity regardless of this however, you can use 
> tango.core.Memory.GC.query(), which returns the size of the block even 
> for interior pointers.
> 

Can someone tell me what "interior pointers" are ?

thanks
Nick