Disable GC entirely

[Regan Heath]

On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:58:15 +0100, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I suspect Andrei for one knows this, and that's why the D containers are
> so... barely existing. The language is not yet ready to say with  
> confidence
> how they should look.

That, and before you can design the containers you need a concrete  
allocator interface design.  Actually, this is likely the same blocker for  
GC-free D as well.

D should have a set of global allocator hooks.  If it did, you could  
easily catch unexpected allocations in tight loops and realtime code.  If  
it did, GC-free D would be trivial - just replace the default GC based  
allocator with a malloc/free one, or any other scheme you like.

The hooks would ideally pass __FILE__ and __LINE__ information down from  
the call site in debug mode, etc.

R

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