New malloc() for win32 that should produce faster DMD's and faster D code that uses malloc()

[Mr. Anonymous]

On Monday, 5 August 2013 at 21:42:11 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Sunday, 4 August 2013 at 09:28:11 UTC, Denis Shelomovskij 
> wrote:
>> So I suppose you use `HeapFree` too? Please, be sure you use 
>> this Windows API BOOL/BOOLEAN bug workaround:
>> https://github.com/denis-sh/phobos-additions/blob/e061d1ad282b4793d1c75dfcc20962b99ec842df/unstd/windows/heap.d#L178
>
> BOOLEAN is either TRUE or FALSE, so it should be ok to check 
> only the least significant byte.

Not in Windows:
typedef BYTE BOOLEAN;
typedef int BOOL;

(c) 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa383751%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

While ideally it should be TRUE or FALSE, sometimes it isn't.
In fact, for functions that return BOOL, MSDN states the 
following:
"If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero."