Re: Knowledge of managed memory pointers

[Tove via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 00:01:25 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d 
wrote:
On 18 April 2014 04:10, Kagamin via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
On Thursday, 17 April 2014 at 12:39:59 UTC, Manu via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:

void f(void* ptr)
{
  // was ptr allocated with malloc, or new?


Then what?


Whatever. inc/dec ref, or not. core.memory.addRoot/Range, or 
not. That sort
of thing.

There's a persistent problem  when dealing with memory systems 
in D that it
must remain backward compatible with C and raw pointers, and 
that creates
complications.

Both NaCl and go-lang uses a trick to reserve a huge amount of 
continuos virtual memory...