static void arrays under garbage control?

ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Wed Feb 25 19:07:53 PST 2015


On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:20:37 -0600, captaindet wrote:

> On 2015-02-25 19:24, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>> does this warning only apply to dynamic void[] arrays but not to
>>> static void[CTconstant] arrays?
>>
>> Both of those will be scanned for pointers.
> 
> thanks, adam,
> 
> so i should always use
> 
> struct Stuff2Do{
>      static ubyte[1024*1024] buffer4speed = void; // even if untyped at
>      this point
> 
>      // more
> }
> 
> to avoid that the GC is scanning my buffer for pointers?

compiler is clever enough to not mark `ubyte` arrays as GC ranges.
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