On Sunday, 16 May 2021 at 11:42:19 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Sunday, 16 May 2021 at 08:04:06 UTC, cc wrote:
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destroy + GC.free has a quirk - GC.free only works on what GC.malloc returns, a base pointer, NOT what `new` returns. The documentation says this but it is a subtle detail easy to miss...

...including by other stdlib authors. __delete is simply incorrectly implemented and an accidental no-op in most cases!

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21550

The documentation that describes how to migrate away from `delete` made this same error.

I tracked down the problem but wasn't 100% sure about the fix. Adding the GC.baseOf thing works for me but i didn't upstream since idk if it works for everyone else.

maybe i should just do it though.

I'd say do it and then >9000 devs will comment, possibly leading to the truth. No comments = it's already acceptable.

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