RFC: safe ref counting

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at gmail.com
Sat May 2 03:31:55 UTC 2020


On 5/1/20 10:52 PM, Meta wrote:
> Is it not enough to add a flag to RefCounted that tells it to destroy 
> (but not deallocate) the ref counted object, instead of deallocating it? 
> Then it could be conditionally @safe.

You mean for Phobos? Phobos uses C malloc/free, so no. Something has to 
deallocate it.

If you mean something else, I'm not sure what you mean.

-Steve


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