[D-runtime] Precise garbage collection

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 07.08.2013 18:18, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:37:45PM +0200, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>> The size value itself is only a small issue, the larger one is the
>> address of the array data moves depending on the size of the
>> allocation, so the pointer info needs to be placed at some offset
>> sometimes. My first implementation actually figured this out in
>> the GC, but I think this leaks too much implementation details of
>> the array into the GC. So I changed it to use gc_emplace instead.
>
> Any reason not to use a more obvious name like setType() or similar?
>

I liked how it pairs quite well with std.emplace. But I'm open to 
suggestions, I'll note yours as gc_settype.