I've just started learning D and noticed a bug, but wanted to
confirm it here before reporting it.
According to spec: "If the new array length is shorter, the array
is not reallocated, and no data is copied. It is equivalent to
slicing the array". Contradicted by a trivial program:
void
On 12/27/2015 02:09 AM, milentin wrote:
> I've just started learning D and noticed a bug, but wanted to confirm it
> here before reporting it.
>
> According to spec: "If the new array length is shorter, the array is not
> reallocated, and no data is copied. It is equivalent to slicing the
>
On Sunday, 27 December 2015 at 22:36:32 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
[Several hours later...]
You know what... I bet there is no actual allocation at all. I
think what happens is, the code calls GC.realloc(24) and
realloc() does not do anything. However, it still reports to
the profiler that
On Sunday, 27 December 2015 at 22:36:32 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
I don't understand why that happens. I found one related bug:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13750
I can understand that assignment to arr.length cannot be @nogc
but I would expect a check against length so that there