https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14134

--- Comment #11 from Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy@yahoo.com> ---
(In reply to Martin Nowak from comment #9)
> (In reply to Rainer Schuetze from comment #8)
> > Other notes:
> > 
> > - The current version also "works" for memory allocated outside the GC, it just doesn't free the memory.
> 
> That should be fixed, we don't want to promote delete arr[] as a method to destroy a slice.

I agree.

> 
> > There is no good way to destroy an array except delete.
> 
> foreach (ref el; ary)
>     destroy(el);

Some type of destroyRange would be a good addition (not just for arrays).

Regardless of this, we need to support a way to manually manage array memory. Especially large arrays, that is where the problem of the conservative GC really shows up.

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Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario@gmx.de> changed:

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--- Comment #12 from Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario@gmx.de> ---
How about this? https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/1168

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--- Comment #13 from github-bugzilla@puremagic.com ---
Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/commit/b4109deef75c6156bd6e95e7008ad091bc9863b4 Merge pull request #1168 from rainers/issue14134

issue 14134 -  Free of large array does not work

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14134

Walter Bright <bugzilla@digitalmars.com> changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |bugzilla@digitalmars.com
         Resolution|---                         |FIXED

--- Comment #14 from Walter Bright <bugzilla@digitalmars.com> ---
When writing pull requests that fix a bugzilla issue, write the title as:

Fix Issue NNNN ....

so that the bugzilla issue ill be automatically marked as fixed when it gets pulled.

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14134

--- Comment #15 from github-bugzilla@puremagic.com ---
Commit pushed to 2.067 at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/commit/b4109deef75c6156bd6e95e7008ad091bc9863b4 Merge pull request #1168 from rainers/issue14134

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