Garbage collected pointers?
Steven Schveighoffer
schveiguy at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 1 12:20:08 UTC 2018
On 3/1/18 7:05 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 March 2018 at 10:10:27 UTC, John Burton wrote:
>> My question is how do I tell if a pointer is "garbage collected" or not?
>
> You could try `GC.addrOf()` or `GC.query()` in core.memory.
I was going to say this, but then I realized, it's not that the pointer
points at GC-allocated memory, but that the pointer itself is stored in
a location that is scanned by the GC. That's not as easy to figure out,
as you have to look at stacks, added ranges, etc.
-Steve
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