Jarrett Billingsley wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:25 PM, torhu <n...@spam.invalid> wrote: >> On 13.12.2008 17:16, Moritz wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Im a student of computer science and at university, we're working on a >>> distributed shared memory system, implemented as a C library. >>> >>> Im also a great fan of D, and so Im asking myself if I could connect D >>> to the C library (which is no problem, as far as I know) and then modify >>> the memory allocation of the compiler to place objects into the >>> distributed memory (I would also need to disable garbage collection, but >>> that should be no problem). >>> >>> Ive already reviewed the sourcecode of the dmd (the parts of it that are >>> shipped with the dmd) and found out malloc() is called in Mem.c >>> >>> So I guess a rather simple way to do what I need would be to overwrite >>> the new() operator or to add another operator to allocate distributed >>> memory (something like new_shared() maybe). >>> >> D supports 'placement new' like in C++: >> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/class.html#allocators >> >> If you're using Tango or dmd 2.x you can also replace the GC with your own >> version if you need to. > > He's... he's modifying the DMD source, which is in C++.
While he's asked about how to modify the compiler, I suspect what he's really interested is in modifying the runtime so that applications that are written in D can take advantage of what he's doing. Modifying the compiler would be of minimal value. Later, Brad
