On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 18:03:40 UTC, Steven
Schveighoffer wrote:
On 9/25/14 6:03 PM, Sean Kelly wrote:
On Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 21:43:53 UTC, monarch_dodra
wrote:
On Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 20:58:29 UTC, Gary
Willoughby wrote:
What does BlkAttr.FINALIZE do when used in the GC.malloc
call?
I have no idea. I think its for classes though, since we
(currently)
don't finalize structs anyways.
Yes it's for memory blocks containing class instances. It
basically
tells the GC to call Object.~this() when collecting the block.
Just to add to Sean's statement, don't use this flag. It will
crash the runtime, unless you have properly set up the
classinfo pointer :) It does NOT work on structs, though I
think there is a PR in the works to have structs destroyed from
the GC.
-Steve
Kind of like APPENDABLE I guess, since it only works if you
correctly setup the appendable data, and correctly slice at the
correct offset, both of which are implementation defined.
