On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 07:56:03PM +, Brother Bill via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
> It appears that D has multiple ways of determining which created
> objects are subject to GC.
No. The GC knows which memory address ranges it manages, and any
pointer that fall outside of those ranges will be
On Wednesday, 3 September 2025 at 23:05:45 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 07:56:03PM +, Brother Bill via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
[...]
C, C++ and D can play shenanigans with pointers, such as
casting them to size_t, which hides them from the GC.
D's current GC is conser
It appears that D has multiple ways of determining which created
objects are subject to GC.
For class instances, new creates a new class instance, returning
a pointer to it. While "alive", other pointers may also point to
the class instance. Once no pointers are pointing to this class
insta
