betterC and CTFE

[Hipreme]

On Saturday, 7 January 2023 at 02:09:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> BetterC code does not have a GC, and so doesn't allow using the 
> GC. But many have correctly pointed out that not having a GC 
> cripples CTFE. CTFE should be able to use the GC, it's a major 
> advantage of having a GC (and cripples languages with CTFE that 
> don't have GC).
>
> So, making some experiments, I found it usually worked. 
> Searching bugzilla, I found one case that didn't:
>
>   https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20101
>
> and fixed it:
>
>   https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/14789
>
> For those that still suffer the slings and arrows from this 
> problem, please let me know the bugzilla issues for them.
>
> P.S. This also applies to @nogc code - CTFE should still be 
> able to use the GC. Isn't that cool? Destroy the question "what 
> good a GC is in a systems programming language!"

Way to go! Although I deeply hate betterC, this is great! This 
increases a lot of potential usages on nogc code :)