d future or plans for d3

Timon Gehr timon.gehr at gmx.ch
Sun Dec 18 15:21:28 PST 2011


On 12/19/2011 12:16 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 12/18/11 5:11 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> Also, D can't have a completely precise
>> GC as long as it has unions and can pass managed memory to C code.
>
> Also casts pointer <-> integrals.

Casting a pointer to GC memory to an integral results in undefined behavior:
http://www.d-programming-language.org/garbage.html

>
> These arguments don't blunt the desirability of precise GC.
>
>
> Andrei



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