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If I'm @nogc on D, what are the memory safety features I get?

• WalterBright 4y ago
  1. array bounds checking 2. pointers to the stack cannot escape the lifetime of the stack frame 3. cannot conflate pointers with non-pointers 4. cannot have uninitialized pointers 5. cannot do arithmetic on pointers (must use array slices, which come with array bounds checking) 6. cannot pass the same mutating pointer to a function more than once There are many more of these. They may seem burdensome and restrictive, but actually are not. If you really want to do these things, there is a "system" annotation that can be used.
  • bsder 4y ago
    Thanks. I don't know a lot about D and it's nice to get an absolutely definitive answer from the creator himself. :)
    • WalterBright 4y ago
      You're welcome. I really should write a supplemental page for the documentation that brings all these into one place. Then I can just link to it! Thanks for the inspiration.