On Friday, 19 September 2014 at 15:32:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
First, there must be some compiler flag -nogc or something,
which triggers the RC exceptions. All modules of an application
must be compiled with this flag if it is to work (such that one
module can throw an exception caught by the other). Of course a
lot of refinement needs to be added here (what happens if one
tries to link modules built with and without -nogc, allowing
people to detect the flag programmatically by using
version(nogc) etc).
Won't using -nogc preclude using this in Phobos/Druntime?
How about instead of a new switch, change the name mangling of
anything that inherits from RCObject? E.g. 'C' is used for
classes, 'R' could be used for reference-counting classes. Then
an ordinary version block can be used to switch between the two.
