On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 22:03:16 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 08/07/2013 01:16 PM, monarch_dodra wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 18:56:40 UTC, Ali Çehreli
wrote:
>> But question to others: I wouldn't want garbage filled
memory, right?
>> So I should consider GC.calloc first.
> Depends on why you think garbage is a problem I guess.
>
> If it is because of false pointers
Precisely.
>, yet you aren't storing any pointers, then simply allocate
> using GC.BlkAttr.NO_SCAN. Then, garbage won't be a problem.
But the attribute is in effect throughout the lifetime of that
memory block, right?
I *think*, however, GC.realloc and GC.extend take a BlkAttr
attribute, and I'm not sure how that works if they don't match...
