On Monday, 12 December 2011 at 16:00:04 UTC, Manu wrote:
Totally off topic... I have a question.
If I pass a pointer to a C library... how does the GC know when
it's safe
to collect?
It doesn't, you should add it to the GC with GC.addRoot or
GC.addRange unless you're absolutely sure the pointer is never
taken off the stack (the call stack is shared between the C and D
code). Once you're sure the memory is no longer referenced on the
C heap, you can remove the root or range with GC.removeRoot and
GC.removeRange.
