Componentizing D's garbage collector

[Sean Kelly]

On Sunday, 12 January 2014 at 17:15:44 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> Am 12.01.2014 18:12, schrieb Brian Rogoff:
>>
>> How would the moving GC deal with pointer arithmetic?
>
> I don't see any problem with pointer arithmetic? Either the 
> pointer is pointing to a gc managed memory block and will be 
> patched accordingly, or it is not pointing to a gc managed 
> memory block, and nothing will happen.

Or you don't know if something is a pointer or not and so 
whatever it references is pinned.