On 08/07/2013 11:40 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 17:47:38 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
If you want to do "semi-manual" memory management, you can use
GC.malloc, which works like normal malloc, but is *still* managed by
the GC. I'd actually recommend "GC.qalloc" over "GC.malloc": it's the
same function, but qalloc actually returns more info, such as the
total amount of memory *actually* allocated. This is very useful when
you need a buffer of arbitrary size, as you get the most out of your
allocation. The memory can also be eagerly marked as unused with
"GC.free", although you'll still have to wait for a collect for it to
actually be freed.
Interesting. How do i access GC.malloc?
import core.memory;
void main()
{
auto p = GC.malloc(42);
}
But question to others: I wouldn't want garbage filled memory, right? So
I should consider GC.calloc first.
Ali
