how should it work?:

when GC finds class instance which is good to be collected, it calls special function on this instance: bool good_to_collect(). if function returns true, then on next pass GC cleanups object without calling to good_to_collect(). if function returns false, then GC does nothing with object and continues periodically asking object if it's ready to be collected.

good_to_collect() it self can be used by App, to perform cleanups, for instance destroy dependent objects.

On Monday, 1 August 2022 at 05:33:02 UTC, AnimusPEXUS wrote:

On Monday, 1 August 2022 at 05:33:02 UTC, AnimusPEXUS wrote:

Why not use

GC.addRoot: https://dlang.org/library/core/memory/gc.add_root.html
GC.removeRoot: https://dlang.org/library/core/memory/gc.remove_root.html

?

On Monday, 1 August 2022 at 11:21:43 UTC, vit wrote:

thanks, I know about those.
But my point is not just to preserve objects from being GCed, but object's to be notified before GC, so objects could do some additional cleanups.

On Tuesday, 2 August 2022 at 05:23:14 UTC, AnimusPEXUS wrote:

You should be able to use object destructor for that. Just be warned, don't use pointers in code, they may be obsolete already.