From 70f178a4778b9cfe4eafa47027f50bc75c696d8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 22:14:17 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] experimental to avoid invalid memory op on close

---
 simpledisplay.d | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/simpledisplay.d b/simpledisplay.d
index aeb3cf3..f708f2b 100644
--- a/simpledisplay.d
+++ b/simpledisplay.d
@@ -2331,7 +2331,7 @@ struct EventLoopImpl {
 		int pulseFd = -1;
 		version(linux) ep.epoll_event[16] events = void;
 	} else version(Windows) {
-		Timer pulser;
+		static Timer pulser; // this is static so the GC doesn't try to reap it; we want to manage it ourselves
 		HANDLE[] handles;
 	}