On Saturday, 27 April 2019 at 22:25:58 UTC, Ferhat Kurtulmuş
wrote:
Hi,
I am wrapping some C++ code for my personal project (opencvd),
and I am creating so many array pointers at cpp side and
containing them in structs. I want to learn if I am leaking
memory like crazy, although I am not facing crashes so far. Is
GC of D handling things for me? Here is an example:
```
//declaration in d
struct IntVector {
int* val;
int length;
}
// in cpp
typedef struct IntVector {
int* val;
int length;
} IntVector;
// cpp function returning a struct containing an array pointer
allocated with "new" op.
IntVector Subdiv2D_GetLeadingEdgeList(Subdiv2D sd){
std::vector<int> iv;
sd->getLeadingEdgeList(iv);
int *cintv = new int[iv.size()]; // I don't call delete
anywhere?
for(size_t i=0; i < iv.size(); i++){
cintv[i] = iv[i];
}
IntVector ret = {cintv, (int)iv.size()};
return ret;
};
// call extern c function in d:
extern (C) IntVector Subdiv2D_GetLeadingEdgeList(Subdiv2d sd);
int[] getLeadingEdgeList(){
IntVector intv = Subdiv2D_GetLeadingEdgeList(this);
int[] ret = intv.val[0..intv.length]; // just D magic.
Still no delete anywhere!
return ret;
}
```
The question is now: what will happen to "int *cintv" which is
allocated with new operator in cpp code? I have many code
similar in the project, but I have not encounter any problem so
far even in looped video processings. Is GC of D doing
deallocation automagically?
https://github.com/aferust/opencvd
Hello Ferhat,
You can use RCArray!T or Slice!(RCI!T) [1, 2] as common thread
safe @nogc types for D and C++ code.
See also integration C++ example [3] and C++ headers [4].
RCArray (fixed length)
[1] http://mir-algorithm.libmir.org/mir_rc_array.html
RCSlice (allows to get subslices)
[2]
http://mir-algorithm.libmir.org/mir_ndslice_allocation.html#rcslice
C++ integration example
[3]
https://github.com/libmir/mir-algorithm/tree/master/cpp_example
C++ headers
[4]
https://github.com/libmir/mir-algorithm/tree/master/include/mir
