On Friday, 1 May 2015 at 06:57:08 UTC, Timo Sintonen wrote:
* Is dynamic memory allocation a requirement of D, or a
library feature?
We should agree whether we are making only yet another C
compiler or do we want the D compiler. The ability to use
object oriented features was the reason I started with D. I
think we do npot need full gc but I want to create objects at
least at start. they will live trough the program so I have no
need to delete then.
I think it is possible to have the memory and object management
things as set of files that may optionally compiled in or left
out. There must be better and smaller malloc programs than the
one I use now.
I'm totally with you on this. I don't want a "better C" or a
"worse D". I hope that programming in D on these
microcontrollers looks very much like the idomatic D in other
domains. I want dyanamic memory allocation to be available for
sure, but I don't want it to be a prerequisite like the garbage
collector currently is. IMO it should be opt in.
Also, aren't you using this malloc
(https://bitbucket.org/timosi/minlibd/src/15e88941c534a19e753fa0eebcd053b17392b7ad/tools/main/malloc.c?at=default).
That looks small and tight, but should be written in D :-)
Mike
