On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Laurynas Biveinis <laurynas.bivei...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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.
Ah, ok. It would also naturally allow finalization. >> 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. The current patches keep them in some way. But the use of C++ (and its more complex types) made types more difficult to access. I suppose integrating gengtype with the C++ frontend would be the only reasonable way out here (eh, and maybe that then naturally develops to C++11 garbage collection support - who knows). Thanks, Richard. > -- > Laurynas
