Need help to get OpenSSL 64 work on Windows x64 | I hate D's GC!

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 07/15/2017 03:05 PM, tetyys wrote:
> On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 17:24:05 UTC, Suliman wrote:
>> GC on 32-bit machine show a lot of bugs.
>
> such as..?

D's GC is conservative i.e. it cannot assume an integer is not a 
pointer. There are ways around this such as marking the memory block as 
not containing pointers but in general, if the language allows you to 
cast a pointer to integer, it's possible that any integer may be the 
only reference to a GC memory.

The problem with 32-bit is, it's very likely that an integer value may 
happen to have a value that equals to an address into GC memory. This 
happens when you allocate e.g. half gigabyte memory, read a file into 
it. So far so good. Unfortunately, it's likely that there is some 
integer in the program that points into this half a gig memory and the 
GC will never release it.

Ali