On Friday, 25 June 2021 at 07:17:20 UTC, kinke wrote:
Wrt. manual non-heap allocations (stack/data segment/emplace etc.), you could e.g. reserve the most significant bit of the counter to denote such instances and prevent them from being free'd (and possibly finalization/destruction too; this would need some more thought I suppose).
You cannot use the most significant bit as it will not work with some 32-bit systems. Linux with a 3G kernel position for example. Better to use the least significant bit as all allocated memory is guaranteed to be aligned. Regardless this requires compiler support for masking off this bit.
Now where going into halfway fat pointer support. Then we can just use fat pointers instead and have full freedom.
