SDL_Quit after GC shutdown?

[Mike Parker]

On Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 06:34:00 UTC, Ivan Trombley 
wrote:
> I believe that I should call SDL_Quit before my program 
> terminates. However, some objects may be holding on to SDL 
> resources and freeing these resources (particularly truetype 
> resources) causes crashiness if SDL_Quit is called before. Is 
> there a way to have SDL_Quit (and TTF_Quit) called after the GC 
> has completed shutting down on program exit?

No. GC cleanup happens after static destructors are run.

>
> If not then it could make things very complex and messy to keep 
> track of these resources.

You really, really, really shouldn't be depending on class 
destructors to free resources like that. There is no guarantee a 
class destructor will ever be called and they are 
non-deterministic, so you can never ensure they will be called in 
a non-problematic sequence.

There are a number of alternatives here. The one I recommend is 
to use structs to wrap your SDL resources. It's what I settled on 
long ago and works well for me. Yes, you will have to take a 
couple of extra steps to cover all your bases if you don't want 
to manually release things, but it's possible to keep it simple 
and avoid messiness.