RFC: reference counted Throwable

[Olivier Pisano via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 20 September 2014 at 06:28:11 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
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> This is one of the reasons why the Objective-C GC failed.
>
> Mixing Frameworks compiled with both modes never worked 
> properly.
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> --
> Paulo

Yes this was a huge failure to take into account.

Linking code where Throwable inherits from Object with code where
Throwable inherits from RCObject... :(

If making the GC completely optional is a must, then error
handling shouldn't rely on it at all, no? What about completely
switching exception handling to RC ? Would it have an impact on
memory safety since exeption handling mecanism is somehow
"magical code generated by the compiler" ?