On Friday 2014-08-08 11:25 -0400, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > The problem I was mentioning is not related to the leak at all. > What if one of these destructors runs code that writes something to > the disk for example, which we expect to go to the disk before we > shut down?
User-visible actions should never be in destructors, except for RAII classes, because having a complex system with garbage collection and potentially with leaks means that we can't guarantee when destructors will run. Destructors should (transitively) contain only things that wouldn't be there if we were writing in a higher level language that did memory management for us. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)
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