(Off topic) Linus on GCC v4.9

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 26 July 2014 13:56, via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, 26 July 2014 at 12:35:12 UTC, Vic wrote:
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>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/24/584
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> Interesting, wasn't aware of the red zone. Does D use that in its calling
> convention? But `extern(C)` functions use it in any case.
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> Is the GC aware of that? Or doesn't it need to be, because the signal
> handlers take care of it?

The GC doesn't need to be aware of it.  Only people doing D on bare
bones (eg: kernels).