Is there any plan for adding a hook to allow a D .dll to hook the parent .exe's garbage collector?  Anyone on the GCC side of the house know of a way to do this in linux?

I've done similar work with C/C++ under win32, and I can say that its anything but trival (it requires extending both the OS's module loading and module init routines to pull off with some degree of encapsulation).  It can however be done.  And a language as promising as D, could really benefit from such a robust feature.

Thanks.

Not as yet, but you're right that this is an issue that should be explored.

My first version of a module loader should be - Walter ?? - going into Phobos in the next release. At the moment, it's very simple, but as it'll be the standard module loader it's the perfect place for putting in such hooks / mechanisms.



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> Is there any plan for adding a hook to allow a D .dll to hook the parent
.exe's
> garbage collector?  Anyone on the GCC side of the house know of a way to
do this
> in linux?
>
> I've done similar work with C/C++ under win32, and I can say that its
anything
> but trival (it requires extending both the OS's module loading and module
init
> routines to pull off with some degree of encapsulation).  It can however
be
> done.  And a language as promising as D, could really benefit from such a
robust
> feature.
>
> Thanks.
>
>