Signals and Slots in D

[Thomas Kuehne]

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Lionello Lunesu schrieb am 2006-09-29:
> Thomas Kuehne wrote:
>> Walter Bright schrieb am 2006-09-29:
>>> The problem in general with hiding pointers is that it'll break with a 
>>> moving garbage collector. You could work around this by 'pinning' the 
>>> objects, but pinning objects long term is a bad idea.
>> 
>> How about an GC allocation area that isn't searched for valid pointers
>> but is still collected?
>
> Couldn't we use malloc/free + RAII for that? ...auto_ptr<>?

No. The trick is that this area is collected(and updated by a moving
GC), but isn't considered while looking for pointers into the "normal"
area.

Thomas


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