Less known std.gc

[Christopher Wright]

bearophile wrote:
> The std.gc module of Phobos contains various things that I don't undertand:
> 
> void addRoot(void* p);
> void removeRoot(void* p);
> void addRange(void* pbot, void* ptop);
> void removeRange(void* pbot);
> void setTypeInfo(TypeInfo ti, void* p);
> void* getGCHandle();
> void setGCHandle(void* p);
> 
> Maybe you can point me to some more info about their usage and usefulness, or some code that uses them. (I think the docs of Phobos can gain some usage examples of those functions).
> 
> Bye and thank you,
> bearophile

There's nothing in any of that that allows you to allocate memory and 
then say, "Let the garbage collector handle this from now on." I guess I 
have to start writing code to delete the objects that I malloc'd; I have 
an embarrassing amount of memory leaks now.