On Friday, 27 June 2014 at 07:34:55 UTC, safety0ff wrote:
On Friday, 27 June 2014 at 07:03:28 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
1) After allocating memory by GC.calloc() to place objects on
it, what else should one do?
Use std.conv.emplace.
And possibly set BlkInfo flags to indicate whether the block has
pointers, and the finalize flag to indicate that it's an object.
I'd look at _d_newclass in Druntime/src/rt/lifetime.d for the
specifics.
To be honest, I think the GC interface is horribly outdated, but
my proposal for a redesign (first in 2010, then again in 2012 and
once again in 2013) never gained traction. In short, what I'd
really like to have is a way to tell the GC to allocate an object
of type T. Perhaps Andrei's allocators will sort this out and
the issue will be moot. For reference:
http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/d-runtime/2010-August/000075.html
http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/d-runtime/2012-April/001095.html
http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/d-runtime/2013-July/001840.html
