A safer interface for core.stdc

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Sun Feb 8 01:01:48 PST 2015


On Sunday, 8 February 2015 at 04:45:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 2/7/15 8:21 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> Come to think of it, is there any point in making malloc 
>> @safe/@trusted
>> at all? I don't think it's possible to make free() @safe, so 
>> what's the
>> purpose of making malloc callable from @safe code? Unless you 
>> make a
>> ref-counted wrapper of some sort around it, in which case you 
>> might as
>> well use RefCounted instead.
>
> Same goes about e.g. fopen vs. fclose. I'm thinking just of 
> increasing the quantity of safe code. -- Andrei

So are you going for this:

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ovoarcbexpvrrceysnrs@forum.dlang.org

?


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