RFC: Pinning interface for the GC

[David Nadlinger]

On Saturday, 13 October 2012 at 19:34:29 UTC, Alex Rønne 
Petersen wrote:
> There is a difference: Adding the object itself as a root does 
> not actually guarantee that the object *itself* might not be 
> collected. At least, this is how I have to assume things work 
> given that this is not guaranteed here: 
> http://dlang.org/phobos/core_memory.html#addRoot

Actually, it does: the internal array of added roots is simply 
considered an additional range to be scanned by the GC 
implementation. The docs should probably be clarified in this 
regard.

David