On Saturday, 13 June 2015 at 12:26:49 UTC, ketmar wrote:
On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 11:32:18 +0000, rsw0x wrote:
http://dlang.org/garbage.html
Do not take advantage of alignment of pointers to store bit
flags in the
low order bits:
p = cast(void*)(cast(int)p | 1); // error: undefined behavior
if this restriction is actually imposed - why does
std.bitmanip.tagged{ClassRef,Pointer} even exist?
'cause D is not another fashionable scripting language where
you have to
eat what you got. one can avoid using GC in his code, or
intermix GC with
other allocators, or rewrite the whole GC or the whole runtime.
writing
stupid boilerplate code for tagged pointers and nan boxing is
simply
tedious, it belongs to library.
in other words: you can use `DirEntries` and `remove` to kill
all files
in your home directory, but it's not the only use for that
functions, so
they should not be removed from Phobos as "useless" or
"dangerous".
There's not even a warning on them that they're violating the
garbage collector specification, don't you think that's a little
important?
