On 5/5/14, 9:57 AM, Marco Leise wrote:
That sounds like a more complicated topic than anything I had in mind. I think a »std.virtualmemory« module should already implement all the primitives in a portable form, so we don't have to do that again for the next use case. Since cross-platform code is always hard to get right, it could also avoid latent bugs. That module would also offer functionality to get the page size and allocation granularity and wrappers for common needs like getting n KiB of writable memory. Management however (i.e. RAII structs) would not be part of it. It sounds like not too much work with great benefit for a systems programming language.
I think adding portable primitives to http://dlang.org/phobos/std_mmfile.html (plus better yet refactoring its existing code to use them) would be awesome and wouldn't need a DIP. -- Andrei
