On Friday, 26 October 2012 at 23:10:48 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Rob T:
Is this happening with dmd 2.060 as released?
I'm using 2.061alpha git head, but I guess the situation is the
same with dmd 2.060. The code is linked in my post, so trying
it is easy, it's one small module.
Bye,
bearophile
I tried it with dmd 2.60 (released), and gdc 4.7 branch. I tried
to check if memory was being freed by creating a struc destructor
for JavaMemoryTrade, but that did not work as expected, leading
me down the confusing and inconsistent path of figuring out why
destructors do not get called when memory is freed.
Long story short, I could not force a struct to execute its
destructor if it was allocated on the heap unless I used delete.
I tried destroy and clear, as well as GC.collect and GC.free(),
nothing else worked.
Memory heap management as well as struct destructors appear to be
seriously broken.
--rt
