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On 2015-09-02 18:09, Brandon Ragland wrote:
This is just a figurative idea, perhaps for my own amusement...
I've browsed the D runtime GC source code for the last few days and I'm
still undecided on what the actual method of "replacing" the existing GC
would be.
Say for example, I decided to tinker and create my own GC (disregard the
fact that it'd be slower / faster, this is for learning purposes only).
Is there a way to "insert" a new GC implementation, and what is the
actual interface the GC is using to connect to the core runtime of D?
I see several GC related structs, etc. kind of spit everywhere, and
determining which one is the actual core _interface_ is seeming more
difficult than I thought.
Any hints, or pointing to the correct direction would be very helpful.
From the looks of it, it doesn't seem obvious.
There's a minimal example of a GC in the druntime source code [1]. For
actually replacing the current one with your custom, I think the easiest
would be to just implement the necessary functions in your application.
They will take precedence over the ones in druntime when linking.
[1]
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/blob/master/src/gcstub/gc.d
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/Jacob Carlborg
