On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 11:32:18 +0000, rsw0x wrote: > http://dlang.org/garbage.html > > Do not take advantage of alignment of pointers to store bit flags in the > low order bits: > p = cast(void*)(cast(int)p | 1); // error: undefined behavior > > if this restriction is actually imposed - why does > std.bitmanip.tagged{ClassRef,Pointer} even exist?
'cause D is not another fashionable scripting language where you have to eat what you got. one can avoid using GC in his code, or intermix GC with other allocators, or rewrite the whole GC or the whole runtime. writing stupid boilerplate code for tagged pointers and nan boxing is simply tedious, it belongs to library. in other words: you can use `DirEntries` and `remove` to kill all files in your home directory, but it's not the only use for that functions, so they should not be removed from Phobos as "useless" or "dangerous".
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