Allocatoin policy in Phobos - Was: Vote for std.process
Walter Bright
newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Fri Apr 12 10:41:57 PDT 2013
On 4/12/2013 7:05 AM, Manu wrote:
> I'll start doing it myself, but I also suggest it be made a policy, and
> carefully considered when considering acceptance of ANY new module. That way,
> new code that suffers the unpredictable/"surprise!" allocation problems won't be
> introduced.
I would also expect that Phobos modules that know the lifetimes of their
allocated data use malloc/free rather than the gc.
Of course, that entails more effort in coding the modules to ensure no leaks,
but we can certainly expect that of phobos developers.
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