On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 21:23:28 UTC, Igor wrote:
um? Memory manager? I am doing it manually C++ style so I don't have to worry about the god forsaken memory manager. Why is it so difficult? I create the object and release it when I need to.
He's talking about *your* memory manager, whatever system you have set up to allocate and deallocate memory.
I can replace the destroy(f) with free(inline the code) but I don't see why that should matter. The whole point of destructors is to do this sort of stuff. That's why they were invented in the first place!?!
Not in D! You have to get your mind out of C++ mode when programming in D. D is not C++, no matter how similar they are, and there are idioms that work well in C++ that do not work in D. There are cases where D's destructors behave like those in C++, but not always.
Since this approach is failing for you, I suggest you make a function or template that can take any object you've manually allocated, call destroy on it, then deallocate it. The destructor can still clean up any resources the object maintains, but the responsibility for deallocating the object will be taken out of the destructor. It also ensures that deallocation does not interfere with the operation of destroy.
