On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:58:09 +0300, Sönke Ludwig
<lud...@informatik.uni-luebeck.de> wrote:
On DMD I got some strange out-of-memory errors with the current 2.054
version. I tracked it down to allocations happening during garbage
collection.
Has something fundamental in the GC implementation changed in the latest
release? It used to work, but seems to be completely disallowed now. I
think it is quite a strong requirement to not make any allocations from
within finalizers and makes them just another bit more useless. (In my
case I have some logging going on which needs dynamic allocations for
formatting (Appender)).
Hi, I was the one who submitted the patch. The situation before the patch
was that allocating memory from a finalizer of a collected object
inevitably lead to memory corruption (which is, as you may know,
devilishly hard to track down). Ideally, someone would rewrite the
appropriate parts of the GC to allow safe throwing and allocations from
finalizers, but that hasn't happened yet.
Here is the Bugzilla issue:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5653
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Best regards,
Vladimir mailto:vladi...@thecybershadow.net