(gcc returns mem) Re: When is it time for a 1.0 feature freeze?

Bruno Medeiros brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail
Fri Sep 22 14:00:41 PDT 2006


Sean Kelly wrote:
> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>>
>> Walter had mentioned before that DMD's memory manager use C's malloc 
>> and free to allocate, so no difference in return behavior is to be 
>> expected.
> 
> It actually uses VirtualAlloc, though malloc is a failover option in 
> GDC's memory manager.
> 
> 
> Sean

Hum, didn't Walter once mention that nearly all compiler implementations 
of new and delete used malloc? I assumed his compilers where one of such 
(didn't look at Phobos). Perhaps that simply was not the case. Or 
perhaps he just meant C++ compilers?


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Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
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