crystal clear()

[Sean Kelly]

Steven Schveighoffer Wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:11:11 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer  
> <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:07:54 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu  
> > <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On 09/17/2010 04:55 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:33:11 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu
> >>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I think clear() can be fixed if we remove the call to the constructor
> >>>> AND obliterate the vptr.
> >>>
> >>> agreed.
> >>
> >> One more thing: we need to change the call to the destructor to check  
> >> the vptr. If the vptr is null, no call to the destructor. Where is that  
> >> piece of code? Couldn't find it by grepping for __dtor.
> >
> > lifetime.d?  Looks like it might already check for null classinfo ;)
> >
> > http://www.dsource.org/projects/druntime/browser/trunk/src/rt/lifetime.d#L1002
> 
> However, it does look like we will have to kill the monitor in clear().

Is there some reason clear() can't just call rt_finalize?