[article] Language Design Deal Breakers

[Walter Bright]

On 5/26/2013 8:43 AM, deadalnix wrote:
> On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 14:10:44 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Yeah, you are right. C and C++ stab themselves only to die a few hours later
>> in a code section totally unrelated or just behave strangely.
>
> Ha, I spent the day on an issue like that in D.
>
> Stackoverflow on a fiber, that spill on a the stack of another fiber. When the
> other fiber unwind its stack enough to get to the trashed data, SURPRISE !
>
> Not really related to null pointer, but clearly a memory safety issue.

Fibers should be implemented by mapping a 4K page with no access rights at the 
end of each stack.