On 5/11/2014 10:57 PM, Marco Leise wrote:
Am Sun, 11 May 2014 17:50:25 -0700
schrieb Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com>:
As long as those pointers don't escape. Am I right in that one cannot store a
borrowed pointer into a global data structure?
Right, and that's the point and entirely positive-to-do™.
This means that a global data structure in Rust has to decide what memory
allocation scheme its contents must use, and cannot (without tagging) mix memory
allocation schemes.
For example, let's say a compiler has internally a single hash table of strings.
With a GC, those strings can be statically allocated, or on the GC heap, or
anything with a lifetime longer than the table's. But I don't see how this could
work in Rust.
