Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 09:07:20 -0700 schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org>:
> On 9/20/14, 12:46 AM, Olivier Pisano wrote: > > If making the GC completely optional is a must, then error > > handling shouldn't rely on it at all, no? What about completely > > switching exception handling to RC ? Would it have an impact on > > memory safety since exeption handling mecanism is somehow > > "magical code generated by the compiler" ? > > The more I think of it the more sensible this is. Exceptions are > unlikely to create cycles, not copied extensively, and are generally > short lived. So an RC scheme backed by malloc/free seems to be most > appropriate. > > There would be breakage, though: Throwable would not be convertible > to Object. I wonder what the impact in the real world that would > cause. > > > Andrei > +1, replace it completely with malloc/free. However, for backwards compatibility malloced exceptions probably still have to be added as roots to the GC, at least if they refer GC allocated data. This should be somehow optional however.
