On 8 September 2013 13:00, Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net> wrote: > On 06/09/13 15:11, Iain Buclaw wrote: >> >> It has always been the case that if you want to enter kernel-space >> with D, you have to drop phobos and implement a more low level >> druntime. For instance, the GC that comes with D is wholly infeasible >> for use inside a kernel . > > > To what extent can that situation be improved with respect to Phobos? The > ideal would be to make it non-GC-reliant and agnostic with respect to how > the runtime manages memory. >
Wouldn't want to change Phobos in any way really, it serves it's purpose. > More generally, this makes a case for something like a well defined > "dmicroruntime" which can be used as a general solution for embedded and > low-level programming. This could be done - don't like the name though. ;) -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
