feature request expanded class object? Re: how to use GC as a leak detector? i.e. get some help info from GC?

[Leandro Lucarella]

nobody, el 25 de mayo a las 07:37 me escribiste:
> == Quote from Leandro Lucarella (llucax at gmail.com)'s article
> > benefit from using NO_SCAN if your 800M of data are plain old data. Did
> > you tried it? And if you never have interior pointers to that data, your
> > program can possibly avoid a lot of false positives due to the
> > conservativism if you use NO_INTERIOR (this is only available if you patch
> 
> No, my data are classes (not structs), and they need to be class by some other
> design considerations;
> and worse they contain pointers to other data, e.g.
> 
> class SmallDataA {  // need to be class
> }
> 
> class SmallDataB {  // need to be class
>   SmallDataA a;     // in D 'a' is a reference, or 'pointer'
> }
> 
> I have thought about use POD. I think the above code in C++ will be more what I
> want: i.e. the 'a' object (not the reference) is embedded directly into
> SmallDataB. I guess when I have millions of such SmallDataB objects, it will make
> the GC busy in D since 'a' is reference.
> 
> So question: can we have such expanded class objects in D?

There are request for them, but not for now...

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