On Friday, 17 September 2021 at 14:29:23 UTC, Steven
Schveighoffer wrote:
Looking at that signature, it does not appear that it uses
zero-termination at all, as it takes a length. So using `dup`
and therefore the gc is totally unnecessary.
I'm assuming that string is the barcode argument?
No, the string appears inside the C-function. I'm calling the
function with .ptr and the .length property as it expects.
The `-vgc` switch appears to only identify allocations that the
compiler invokes via hooks, not ones that other functions
invoke (or ones that are direct calls into the GC).
...
The docs for `-vgc` should really be updated to clarify. It
currently just says "List all gc allocations including hidden
ones".
-Steve
Thanks for clarification!
