On Wednesday, 22 February 2017 at 07:14:27 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
In this particular case, the program would probably exit if you
did
void main()
{
{
auto a = new A;
}
import core.memory;
GC.collect();
}
I very much doubt so. A Thread object isn't just a handle or
thread reference, but also encapsulates some of the
system/druntime state required to make threading work. Executing
Thread.~this() while a thread was still running would lead to a
crash.
(The tricky part is to make sure the Thread object becomes
eligible for collection once a thread has actually finished.)
— David
