Reimplementing software building blocks like malloc and free in D
Aruna Maurya
aruna.maurya12 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 11 18:59:00 UTC 2018
Hello all! I am a Computer Science undergraduate student.
Currently a junior, I find the idea of 're-implementing software
building blocks like malloc and free in D' listed in the wiki
page of SAOC(Symmetry Autumn of Code) quite interesting.
I don't have experience of coding in D however, I have 4 years of
coding in C++ and have a good hold on pointers and the standard
template library. I have also successfully completed a course of
Operating Systems and Data Structures in my 4th semester. I
believe I can pick up D in due course of time.
I had few queries regarding the same and would be glad if anyone
could pitch in to help me out.
1. If it would have been C++, the above can be implemented by
using the mmap() syscall to allocate memory from
the heap. However, something that I am not able to understand in
the idea description is 'runtime hooks'.
2. Also as far as I can understand, this idea is about
implementing the above from scratch, and not tweaking the
existing codebase. Do let me know if I am wrong.
Thank you for your time!
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