On Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 01:24:43 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
No, that's a bad idea. What if the C library you are using maintains some sort of internal bookkeeping related to the pointer? What if it keeps a copy of the pointer internally? If the GC collects your D-side pointer, how is the C library supposed to know it's time to cleanup everything associated with that pointer?
I definitely hadn't considered that. I was mainly talking about the CSFML library, but I think even then trying to add the pointers into the GC would cause the problems you mention. Thanks for all the insight!
