On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:25 PM, torhu <n...@spam.invalid> wrote: > On 13.12.2008 17:16, Moritz wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Im a student of computer science and at university, we're working on a >> distributed shared memory system, implemented as a C library. >> >> Im also a great fan of D, and so Im asking myself if I could connect D >> to the C library (which is no problem, as far as I know) and then modify >> the memory allocation of the compiler to place objects into the >> distributed memory (I would also need to disable garbage collection, but >> that should be no problem). >> >> Ive already reviewed the sourcecode of the dmd (the parts of it that are >> shipped with the dmd) and found out malloc() is called in Mem.c >> >> So I guess a rather simple way to do what I need would be to overwrite >> the new() operator or to add another operator to allocate distributed >> memory (something like new_shared() maybe). >> > > D supports 'placement new' like in C++: > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/class.html#allocators > > If you're using Tango or dmd 2.x you can also replace the GC with your own > version if you need to.
He's... he's modifying the DMD source, which is in C++.
