Reimplementing software building blocks like malloc and free in D

[Aruna Maurya]

On Saturday, 11 August 2018 at 20:15:06 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
> On Saturday, 11 August 2018 at 18:59:00 UTC, Aruna Maurya wrote:
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> The compiler recognizes certain expressions and lowers them to 
> functions in the D runtime that we call runtime hooks.  See 
> https://wiki.dlang.org/Runtime_Hooks for an unmaintained, but 
> still relevant, list of some of them.
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So there are essentially two requirements here. Building the 
memory management functionalities from scratch in idiomatic D and 
implementing the existing runtime hooks as templates. The latter 
isn't quite a part of the idea as mentioned on the page.

Also I see in one of the above replies that malloc and free have 
been already implemented. So is that off the shelf or still 
available for implementation?
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Thanks for the resource! Will go through it and get back in case 
of any doubts.
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