> ISTR we went to typed allocs as part of a transition which not
> fully materialised?

Yes. I had plans to replace the call-based GC marker routines with a
generic routine that operates on a type marker stored next to the
object. That enables partial, generational, etc GC.

>  I actually dislike that we get back the
> ugly casts here - so, can we keep the allocators or use
> a macro similar to the XNEW family?

My 2c suggestion would be to keep the typed allocators at least until
a new plan for GC is developed.

-- 
Laurynas

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