Finalize GC memory

[Ali Çehreli]

On 06/15/2013 02:22 PM, Namespace wrote:

 > With the knowledge that 'delete' will be deprecated soon:
 > Is there then still a way to finalize GC memory? I know it's unsafe etc.
 > but is there a way? I know of 'destroy' but it does not finalize
 > anything and AFAIK it's not safe and has also side effects.

Being a C++ programmer, I am new to the term "finalize". If it means 
"call the destructor", then destroy() is it.

 > And it does
 > not call the DTor if any struct is allocated with 'new'.

It does:

import std.stdio;

struct S
{
     ~this()
     {
         writeln("destructor called");
     }
}

void main()
{
     auto s = new S();
     destroy(*s);        // NOTE the '*' operator!
}

 > I tried GC.free, GC.collect, destroy and a few other things, but except
 > of 'delete' nothing finalize the memory.
 > Thoughts?

Ali