Quick question about target patforms . . .

[Michel Fortin]

On 2010-10-25 12:11:05 -0400, "Steven Schveighoffer" 
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> said:

> If that's not the case, and you have to use iOS' GC, I think D's 
> runtime  can easily be rewritten to use it.  It's built to allow 
> swappable GC  implementations.

There's no GC on iOS, for now it's only available on Mac OS X. And the 
Mac OS X GC does not support pointers to the interior of memory blocks, 
only pointers to the block's address. So it's not a good fit for D. It 
also requires memory barriers when reading/writing to pointers.

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