What's the current status of GC in phobos?

weaselcat via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Apr 5 01:27:15 PDT 2015


On Sunday, 5 April 2015 at 08:08:26 UTC, Kapps wrote:
> 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.

yep, foot in mouth.


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