On Thu, 29 May 2014 09:57:40 -0400, Adam D. Ruppe
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 13:01:50 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
Later in same chapter: "... or being collected by the garbage
collector—its destructor is called, if present."
Is that really true?
hmm, you seem to be right, but this might be a bug. I'm pretty sure the
struct dtors were called on arrays not long ago but it isn't really
reliable with the GC (My weasel word there is "provably", sometimes the
GC can't prove there are no references; false pointers etc) but still
blargh this current reality seems weird.
The GC never has called struct destructors for arrays of structs or
individual structs allocated on the heap.
It will call destructors on structs that are members of classes ONLY
because the class destructor will call the struct destructor.
One other situation a heap allocated struct will have it's destructor
called (I think) is due to a closure allocation, but I'm not 100% sure how
that works. A way to verify is to make a closure occur, then test the
closure's block to see if FINALIZE flag is set on it.
-Steve
