Am Mon, 12 May 2014 01:54:58 -0700 schrieb Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com>:
> 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. :( Good question. I have no idea. -- Marco
