GC.malloc is pure - wat
anonymous via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Apr 24 08:43:15 PDT 2015
On Friday, 24 April 2015 at 15:21:43 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
> This is OK as long as f is *strong* pure. D pure is not the
> same as the traditional definition.
>
> And GC.malloc is not strong pure, as it returns mutable data.
Ah, this is the piece I was missing. I was aware of weak/strong
pure, but I didn't know the return type plays a role in that.
Could core.stdc.stdlib.malloc and friends also be marked pure
then?
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