On 6/8/16 3:08 PM, Matthias Bentrup wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 03:19:18 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 03:10:32 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:
In D some very important things like exceptions depend on GC.
This is a common misconception. Exceptions do not have to use the GC,
they just often are. All you have to do is malloc an exception and
then throw it, and then remember to free it after you catch it up the
call stack.
The Phobos developers made the decision to use the GC in order to be
@safe rather than fast.
Exceptions and memory allocation are a pain to use anyway. When you call
a function that calls a function that calls a function, and you get an
Exception, how do you know how to properly deallocate it ?
And it's not just the Exception Object itself, usually you also have to
allocate at least a string for the Exception message.
Correct. We need a mechanism for deallocating exceptions automatically.
Their error message should be a CStr. -- Andrei
