Knowledge of managed memory pointers

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 18 April 2014 04:10, Kagamin via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, 17 April 2014 at 12:39:59 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
>> void f(void* ptr)
>> {
>>   // was ptr allocated with malloc, or new?
>>
>
> Then what?
>

Whatever. inc/dec ref, or not. core.memory.addRoot/Range, or not. That sort
of thing.

There's a persistent problem  when dealing with memory systems in D that it
must remain backward compatible with C and raw pointers, and that creates
complications.
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