What's the current status of GC in phobos?

Kapps via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Apr 5 01:08:24 PDT 2015


On Sunday, 5 April 2015 at 05:10:21 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> On Sunday, 5 April 2015 at 02:23:47 UTC, MarisaLovesUsAll wrote:
>> Hi!
>> Today I met one guy on the internet, he said that he will use 
>> D only if standard library will not require Garbage Collector 
>> (in case of total GC disabling).
>> So what's the current status of GC in Phobos? :^)
>> I've heard there has been some work on it.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alex
>
> I expect 2.068 to be the first version of D really "usable" 
> without the GC if we get std.allocator/@nogc smartpointers/etc, 
> but I might just be sticking my foot in my mouth right now. : )

Unfortunately, I doubt @nogc exception support will be ready for 
2.068 (there isn't even any plans for it at the moment), and 
@nogc is still unusable until that's taken care of.


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