On Tuesday, 12 October 2021 at 08:19:01 UTC, jfondren wrote:
What's a reliable test that could be used in a toStringz that
skips allocation when given a string in read-only memory?
There is no good way.
- You could peek in /proc, but that's not portable
- You could poke the data and catch the resulting fault; but
that's: 1) horrible, 2) slow, 3) problematic wrt threading, 4)
sensitive to user code mapping its own memory and then remapping
as rw (or unmapping)
- You could make a global hash table into which are registered
the addresses of all rodata; but that is difficult to get right
across translation units, especially in the face of dynamic
linking. This is probably the most feasible, but is really not
worth the hassle.
