Destructor call

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, April 10, 2018 18:52:19 kinke via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Tuesday, 10 April 2018 at 18:34:54 UTC, n0fun wrote:
> > Why the destructor is called in the second case and why not in
> > the first?
>
> The first case is RAII, where destruction isn't done for not
> fully constructed instances.

Yeah, which is arguably a bug:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14246

> The second case is GC finalization at program shutdown and looks
> like a bug, as the GC should probably immediately reclaim the
> allocated heap memory if construction wasn't successful.

Maybe it should reclaim the memory immediately, but I don't see how it could
be argued to be a bug. When memory is freed by the GC is an implementation
detail, and it's never guaranteed that a finalizer will actually ever run.

- Jonathan M Davis