fake RefCounted for CTFE?

[Timon Gehr]

On 15.06.20 23:18, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> I'm doing some stuff with RefCounted for a factory-like expression, 
> where I expect the factory harnesses are going to be very short-lived. 
> However, these don't work at CTFE (because malloc/etc aren't available).
> 
> Would it make sense for RefCounted to turn into GC for CTFE mode? That 
> is, if RefCounted is used during CTFE, it just allocates on the GC heap 
> and doesn't actually do ref counting. The end result will be a ref 
> counted struct that somehow is flagged that it's never going away (and 
> it shouldn't, if it's generated at compile time).
> 
> Then you could use functions that return RefCounted items as static 
> initializers, or use libraries that use RefCounted at compile time 
> without issues.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> -Steve

I think it should work in CTFE, but it cannot break @nogc.