Brad Roberts Wrote: > Jarrett Billingsley wrote: > > 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++. > > While he's asked about how to modify the compiler, I suspect what he's > really interested is in modifying the runtime so that applications that > are written in D can take advantage of what he's doing. Modifying the > compiler would be of minimal value. > > Later, > Brad
First of all, thank you for your answers. Im not really interested in modifying the source, I thought I had no other choice to get objects into our shared memory. But I guess the 'placement new' solution will work perfectly for me, so theres no need to touch the holy DMD :-)
