RFC: reference counted Throwable

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

Am 21.09.2014 20:17, schrieb Dmitry Olshansky:
> 21-Sep-2014 19:03, Andrei Alexandrescu пишет:
>> On 9/21/14, 1:51 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> On 2014-09-20 18:56, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>
>>>> Please don't take me in a court of law. But yes, I am talking about the
>>>> compiler inserting calls to increment and decrement reference
>>>> counts. --
>>>> Andrei
>>>
>>> We do need to know what you're proposal is for.
>>
> [snip]
>>
>> (For practical reasons, RCObject will implement IUnknown. There are a
>> few random consequences of that (meaningless method QueryInterface, no
>> class info, no monitor, COM-compatible layout) but IUnknown already has
>> AddRef and Release and the compiler already recognizes IUnknown as a
>> special case. Hooking RCObject there will leave us with two roots
>> instead of adding a third one.)
>>
>
> This is actually a nice choice since COM would then (eventually) benefit
> from whatever automatic ref-counting we embed into the compiler.
> This is exactly what Visual C++ does now for new style COM object
> (inherited from IInspectable).
>

Specially important since all new Windows API since XP are mostly COM based.

--
Paulo