A few considerations on garbage collection

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d]

Andrei Alexandrescu:

> Subsequently the GC should be within its rights to deallocate 
> any memory within the first and last 250 integers allocated, 
> even though in theory the user may get to them by using pointer 
> arithmetic.

Such use of point arithmetic is not uncommon.


> I think the current GC already does that.

If this is true then this needs to be documented in bold text.

Bye,
bearophile