Componentizing D's garbage collector

[Brad Anderson]

On Sunday, 12 January 2014 at 17:15:44 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> Am 12.01.2014 18:12, schrieb Brian Rogoff:
>>
>> How would the moving GC deal with pointer arithmetic?
>
> I don't see any problem with pointer arithmetic? Either the 
> pointer is pointing to a gc managed memory block and will be 
> patched accordingly, or it is not pointing to a gc managed 
> memory block, and nothing will happen.
>
> Obviously if you do unsafe things, you have to know what you 
> are doing and might give additional information to the gc so it 
> can propperly support unsafe stuff.

The garbage collection page of the D spec actually talks a lot
about what is safe and unsafe (even though D doesn't have a
moving collector).

http://dlang.org/garbage.html