C Memory

[Diggory]

On Sunday, 5 May 2013 at 07:23:25 UTC, Namespace wrote:
> On Sunday, 5 May 2013 at 06:43:17 UTC, Diggory wrote:
>> On Sunday, 5 May 2013 at 06:35:38 UTC, Namespace wrote:
>>> Quick question: I have a SDL_Surface in one of my classes and 
>>> the SDL_Surface contains (obviously) memory to the pixel 
>>> data. Since I cannot free this memory with the DTor: what 
>>> will happen? AFAIK this cannot be freed by the GC because it 
>>> was not allocated by it. So AFAIK this creates a memory leak. 
>>> Am I right?
>>
>> Why can't you free the memory from the destructor?
>
> Every time I tried this, I got this: 
> core.exception.InvalidMemoryOperationError
> I do not know if I get that, because the GC has already cleaned 
> this store or because of something else.

Sounds like a bug - if the pointer is not into GC memory then the 
GC shouldn't touch it.