On 30/09/2018 8:29 PM, Vijay Nayar wrote:
I have two brief questions.Code that uses "new" to create struct objects appears to compile and run. Is this an actual language feature, to get structs on the heap?void main() { struct S {int data = 1;} S* s1 = new S(); S* s2 = s1; S s3 = *s1; // Still copies on assignment. s3.data = 2; assert(s1.data != s3.data); }
Yes. Uses a compiler hook to call into the GC, like with everything else.
