GC/non-GC memory as part of data type?

Nick Treleaven nick at geany.org
Fri Nov 15 18:23:19 UTC 2019


On Wednesday, 13 November 2019 at 15:25:46 UTC, James Lu wrote:
> We could add @nogc types. That indicates to the implementation
> that the memory held by that type MAY be ignored by the GC and 
> that
> that any pointers held in that type MUST NOT be moved by a 
> moving
> GC.

But a moving GC would only update a pointer that pointed to GC 
allocated memory.

@nogc on a field declaration could be useful.


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