On Thursday, 10 December 2015 at 13:52:57 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
On Thursday, 10 December 2015 at 13:33:07 UTC, Pradeep Gowda wrote:
2. Memory management. (I guess D is not immune from having to manage memory for the C functions it calls.. but is there a difference in approach? is it safer in D?)
2) You can manipulate the C heap in D just the same as in C. GC-allocated memory in D being passed to C requires more care, but is normally not a problem.
I was going to say the exact same thing, but I do think it's worth putting some emphasis on "more care" here. It's true that it normally is not a problem, but it's precisely the abnormal cases that you will miss when you aren't paying attention.
