On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 16:47:38 UTC, Etienne wrote:
You're right, it's obviously easier to keep it as the same
pointer syntax but hijack the stdlib malloc functions to
forcibly go through the GC.
If the GC controls everything, you can keep the info in 8 byte
pointers.
- The GC always returns an libc-incompatible pointer value
- Dereferencing should call the resolver from the GC to process
it with the libc-compatible value (possibly just removing the
last couple bytes)
- Sending a pointer through extern(C) should call the sanitizer
which resolves the real pointer through the GC and sends that
- The last bytes of a pointer would contain thread ID for
void** and poolID for void*
- This would only work on x64 platforms
This would also help implementing weak references, am I right?
Which then come in handy when improving std.signals?
Bastiaan.
