On Thursday, 8 November 2018 at 11:46:44 UTC, Codifies wrote:
when creating a new instance of a class
aclass a = new aclass();
I was under the impression that this created a new chunk of
memory on the heap...
however I'm trying to create this class instance in another
classes method, I also need to store a pointer to this newly
created instance in the same method.
when I look at the actual value of the pointer, although it
does change after multiple goes, frequently its the same value.
It almost looks like its allocating on the local stack and its
made a new instance thats entirely local to the factory method.
do I need to manually allocate the memory ?? how do I do this?
how can I allow the GC to clean this up?
I'm *really* discombobulated now, as new doesn't seem to be
working how I thought it did!!!
I'll try to spin up a minimal example...
