On Saturday, 3 September 2016 at 12:22:25 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
On Friday, 2 September 2016 at 14:55:26 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
Anyway, with @safe unions, my thinking is that it would mean
that the garbage collector can be made precise in @safe code
in a way that it can't in @system code (assuming unions with
pointers aren't snuck in through @trusted).
GC (and runtime in general) has no idea what code is safe and
what code is system. GC works with data at run-time. All
@safe-related stuff is about code (not data!) and happens at
compile-time. They are completely orthogonal and independent,
as I understand.
This is correct, but when designing a GC – in particular, a
precise GC –, having the compiler emit additional helpful
metadata to binaries is always an option worth considering.
— David
