On Wednesday, 11 December 2024 at 18:16:24 UTC, solidstate1991
wrote:
I'm thinking about writing, or well, rather modifying the
existing default runtime of D, mainly by stripping out the GC
and moving memory management to a primarily manual one. Option
for refcounting etc. will be added (especially as it exists in
Phobos, I just need to modify it), reworking D arrays for
manual management will be a wild ride though.
I will try to catalogue the runtime hooks too during my
process, however I don't really see any info about how to use a
custom made runtime. Is it enough to just use betterC, then
include the newly created runtime as a dependency? Do I need to
mess with compiler configurations?
All you need to do is have an `object.d` file in your build,
that's where the runtime is, effectively. If you have a
non-standard `object.d` supplied, the druntime is ignored and
your custom runtime is used. `betterC` disables any runtime in
general, so that's not what you want.
