On Thursday, 15 May 2014 at 00:48:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/14/2014 5:44 PM, Brian Schott wrote:
Can we say that Mallocator failures are not recoverable?

malloc itself does not have that property. But you could design a wrapper for it that did.

I'm concerned specifically with this wrapper: https://github.com/andralex/phobos/blob/allocator/std/allocator.d#L773

We need to make these functions pure if they are going to be usable.

Removing the stdlib import and adding

private extern (C)
{
    void* malloc(size_t) pure nothrow @trusted;
    void free(void*) pure nothrow @trusted;
    void* realloc(void*, size_t) pure nothrow @trusted;
}

as well as a throwing OutOfMemoryError if they fail should be sufficient, correct?

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