std.allocator needs your help

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/23/13 11:59 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-09-23 17:03, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> I'd think new already is translated into a library call. Walter?
>
> Yes, "new" is lowered to a couple different runtime functions. Here's a
> list:
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Runtime_Hooks

Thanks, this is great.

Currently "new" is fail because it calls functions passing TypeInfo 
objects, instead of calling type-parameterized functions. We must change 
that to have "new T(args)" lower into ".opNew!T(args)". Then object.d 
defines that function.


Andrei