On Sunday, 22 February 2015 at 14:41:43 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
On Sunday, 22 February 2015 at 04:19:32 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
On Saturday, 21 February 2015 at 22:13:09 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
malloc+free can be trusted if wrapped in something like a ref counted pointer, no?

Foo bazoom;

class Foo {
   void bar() {
       bazoom = this;
   }
}

void foo() {
   RefCounted!Foo f = ...
   f.bar();

   // bazoom is now a dandling pointer.
}

I see, thanks.

Is assigning 'this' from a member function the only problem case?

No. There's also returning the reference from a member function, storing it in a passed-in reference (pointer, ref, out or slice), and passing it to other functions that in turn leak the reference, as well as throwing it. And leaking closures containing the reference.

That's all that I can think of now...

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