DIP60: @nogc attribute

[Regan Heath via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 18:38:23 +0100, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 4/16/2014 8:01 AM, qznc wrote:
>> However, what is still an open issue is that @nogc can be stopped by  
>> allocations
>> in another thread. We need threads which are not affected by  
>> stop-the-world. As
>> far as I know, creating threads via pthreads C API directly achieves  
>> that, but
>> integration with @nogc could provide more type safety. Stuff for  
>> another DIP?
>
> That's a completely separate issue.

Yep.  I was thinking an attribute like @rt (realtime) would be super cool  
(but, perhaps impossible).  It would be a super-set of things like @nogc,  
and imply those things.  Adding @nogc does not prevent such a thing being  
done in the future.

R

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