DIP60: @nogc attribute

Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Apr 15 13:40:09 PDT 2014


On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 15:20:41 -0400, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> Let's be clear about the motivation for @nogc - there are a lot of  
> people who will not use D because of fear of GC. They want a guarantee  
> that the GC isn't being called. They don't want code that hides calls to  
> GC.

The DIP should be clear on this. Right now it says "guarantee code will  
not allocate using GC"

I now understand the rationale, and intended result. All that is left to  
specify is the implementation (who does what).

-Steve


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