On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 1:35 PM, Botond Ballo <bba...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 4:05 PM, Jet Villegas <jville...@mozilla.com>
> wrote:
> > I'd rather see the committee focus on things like object lifetime
> management
> > so we don't have to port everything to Rust just to get basic memory
> safety
> > guarantees. How much leverage do we have to push on that?
>
> I assume you mean "push for better object lifetime management" rather
> than "push against the 2D graphics proposal".
>
Yes, but please remind folks that Firefox already works with Cairo 2D and
we've made our implementation available for all :-)
> The only current proposal that I'm aware of in this area is P0936R0
> ("Bind Returned/Initialized Objects to the Lifetime of Parameters")
> [1]. This aims to extend C++'s lifetime extension rules to "see
> through" suitably annotated function / constructor calls, such that
> objects bound to parameters of such a function / constructor are kept
> alive for the lifetime of the return value / constructed object (so
> the annotation basically means "this function returns an object /
> constructs an object that refers to its parameters, and therefore that
> object should not outlive the parameters").
>
>
That actually sounds like a good thing to have. We'll continue to push on
Rust but still good to tighten up existing C++ code over time.
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