From: Xiao-Yong Jin <meta.jxy@gmail.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Cc: Adrian Siekierka <asiekierka@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [9front] Nim lang, C alignment support
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2021 17:25:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14C92255-A517-4EBA-A944-9FBAC3B1D728@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53ac86bf-b111-4d2b-afd0-088687fca7f8@posteo.net>
> On Aug 6, 2021, at 8:37 AM, Emery Hemingway <ehmry@posteo.net> wrote:
>
> When I say garbage collector I should say memory manager, ARC and ORC
> don't work either. If you look at the generated source all Nim types
> have some alignment info attach to them, so I'd say its an unavoidable
> problem.
What exactly happens when the executables run? Do you have the Nim
compiler bootstrapped on 9front? Or do you just try to compile the
C code generated from other host OS? Did you try to turn off all
the extra checks and just use malloc, like,
-d:danger --panics:on --gc:arc -d:useMalloc
If I understand correctly, the only place that relies on the alignment
is Nim's allocator, for whatever reason, and it did not appear until
late 2019 as an optimization and safety guarantees for dynamic libraries.
If you can figure out where it actually "goes to shit", you might be
able to avoid using alignment at all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-07 2:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-06 10:52 Emery
2021-08-06 11:11 ` Adrian Siekierka
2021-08-06 13:37 ` Emery Hemingway
2021-08-06 22:25 ` Xiao-Yong Jin [this message]
2021-08-08 14:54 ` Emery Hemingway
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