On 9/25/14 6:03 PM, Sean Kelly wrote:
On Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 21:43:53 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
On Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 20:58:29 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
What does BlkAttr.FINALIZE do when used in the GC.malloc call?
I have no idea. I think its for classes though, since we (currently)
don't finalize structs anyways.
Yes it's for memory blocks containing class instances. It basically
tells the GC to call Object.~this() when collecting the block.
Just to add to Sean's statement, don't use this flag. It will crash the
runtime, unless you have properly set up the classinfo pointer :) It
does NOT work on structs, though I think there is a PR in the works to
have structs destroyed from the GC.
-Steve
