modifying the DMD compiler

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:25 PM, torhu <no at spam.invalid> wrote:
> On 13.12.2008 17:16, Moritz wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Im a student of computer science and at university, we're working on a
>> distributed shared memory system, implemented as a C library.
>>
>> Im also a great fan of D, and so Im asking myself if I could connect D
>> to the C library (which is no problem, as far as I know) and then modify
>> the memory allocation of the compiler to place objects into the
>> distributed memory (I would also need to disable garbage collection, but
>> that should be no problem).
>>
>> Ive already reviewed the sourcecode of the dmd (the parts of it that are
>> shipped with the dmd) and found out malloc() is called in Mem.c
>>
>> So I guess a rather simple way to do what I need would be to overwrite
>> the new() operator or to add another operator to allocate distributed
>> memory (something like new_shared() maybe).
>>
>
> D supports 'placement new' like in C++:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/class.html#allocators
>
> If you're using Tango or dmd 2.x you can also replace the GC with your own
> version if you need to.

He's... he's modifying the DMD source, which is in C++.