Workaround for typeid access violation

[rsw0x via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 20:19:45 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 19:52:41 UTC, Etienne wrote:
> https://github.com/etcimon/druntime/commit/7da3939637bd1642400dbed83e3b0ff2844386ac
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> why 'possibly' ?
>>
>> I hadn't tested it when I wrote that message. I committed the 
>> changes today and my tests were successful in a thread-local 
>> GC, however I'm still scanning the other thread contexts. The 
>> only limitation is that you can't move objects between 
>> threads, a pointer must remain in the thread that created it 
>> if the object is used in another thread.
>>
>> > https://github.com/etcimon/druntime/commit/78a2bca1356e0514c516e5261649ca0bf686b4cb
>
> I am no compiler/runtime guru, but it sounds like if it were 
> possible to make this a swappable option for D this might be 
> very important.  Is this true, and how much work is involved in 
> making this industrial strength?

that it falls apart as soon as you introduce any form of 
non-message passing threading and/or global variables?
if it was this easy, it would be done already.