Manual Deletion from Destructor
Sean Kelly
sean at invisibleduck.org
Sat Mar 14 09:41:11 PDT 2009
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
> You can't call delete against a struct object, so the above wouldn't
> compile. What may solve your problem is calling GC.hasNoPointers against
> the block of memory in which hugeDataStructure lives. But before that...
> isn't the current GC non-conservative for heap-allocated objects? I
> thought it's only conservative for stack objects.
It's conservative for everything, unless you count marking an entire
block as "has pointers" non-conservative. The GC currently doesn't know
where in a block the pointers are, so it treats all such labeled blocks
conservatively.
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