https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=12387
yebblies <yebbl...@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |yebbl...@gmail.com --- Comment #3 from yebblies <yebbl...@gmail.com> 2014-03-21 00:42:37 EST --- > Or please try to explain why "malloc" isn't special. It will help me > understand, and stop me from pressing on the issue. I guess you could consider a malloc leak as an observable side effect... eg duplicate calls to a pure function that calls malloc can't be removed even if they return an immutable pointer. > malloc and friends affect global state and therefore are not pure. > > The gc is special in that it is allowed to modify global state and yet remain > pure. malloc is not special. This is a convoluted way to say 'no' without giving any reasons... -- Configure issuemail: https://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------