GC-proof resource classes

Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Aug 29 07:32:26 PDT 2015


On 08/29/2015 04:20 PM, cym13 wrote:
> On Saturday, 29 August 2015 at 14:17:10 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
>> On Saturday, 29 August 2015 at 13:14:26 UTC, ponce wrote:
>>> ...
>>
>> All of this could be fixed by not letting the GC call destructors.
>> It's a bad, error-prone design to begin with and I guarantee any
>> semi-large D program is probably abusing undefined behavior due to it.
>
> After reading all that, I too am convinced that the GC shouldn't call
> the destructor.

But then classes with destructors shouldn't be allowed to be allocated 
on the GC heap in the first place, which is a PITA as well. (Note that 
classes/arrays can have destructors because some component structs have 
them; structs generally assume that their destructors will be called.)


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