Sending an immutable object to a thread
rsw0x via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Tue Jul 21 14:50:34 PDT 2015
On Tuesday, 21 July 2015 at 21:44:07 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
> On Sunday, 19 July 2015 at 17:12:07 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
>> [...]
>
> wow, I don't even remember posting this.
>
> This is (mostly) wrong, but I'm unsure if a pointer to another
> pointer on the stack would correctly keep its object alive(but,
> I believe this would just be a bug I think,) If the pointer was
> pointing to a pointer on the heap, then AFAICT it would keep it
> alive.
addendum:
http://dlang.org/garbage.html
>Pointers in D can be broadly divided into two categories: Those
>that point to garbage collected memory, and those that do not.
>Examples of the latter are pointers created by calls to C's
>malloc(), pointers received from C library routines, pointers to
>static data, pointers to objects on the stack, etc.
>and those that do not ... pointers to objects on the stack, etc.
I believe this implies that it would *not* keep the object alive.
Sorry for the confusion/noise.
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