Re: GDC 4.8: Status of garbage collection and TLS

2012-11-10 Thread Dan Olson
Johannes Pfau writes: > > Yes. The GC needs special runtime / compiler support to scan TLS > variables and this code has traditionally been buggy / difficult to > implement. > > You can use a simple test to detect the most obvious errors: I used your test, but had to make a bunch of objects to ge

Re: GDC 4.8: Status of garbage collection and TLS

2012-11-10 Thread Johannes Pfau
Am Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:12:55 -0800 schrieb Dan Olson : > So far I am having fun gradually pushing D into apple ios sim (it runs > i386 not arm). I am curious though about thread local storage and GC. > I saw older posts about it being an issue and have not seen anything > more on it. Is it still

GDC 4.8: Status of garbage collection and TLS

2012-11-10 Thread Dan Olson
So far I am having fun gradually pushing D into apple ios sim (it runs i386 not arm). I am curious though about thread local storage and GC. I saw older posts about it being an issue and have not seen anything more on it. Is it still an issue? I am doing all this with latest D git and gcc-4.8-20