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AllocPPx.pl -> A Perl script that preprocesses C with garbage collection! (gist.github.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Automatic garbage collection in C is possible with libraries like libgc, but with allocppx.pl, you can just preprocess your file into generating heaps, and these heaps can be used for memory allocation. The type of GC is used, mark and sweep + reference counting. Every memory allocation MAY have a trace, and this trace can be used to 'refget' and 'refunget'. Heap items that are NULL or have 0 refs are collected via mark and sweep.

The generated code is very readable, you can just look at it to get a clue. However, this Perl document is annotated with POD so you can view it in man pages etc. I have submitted an ASCII render of the manpage in Gist.

I hope you enjoy this.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's cool that someone is still using perl. It's sad that anyone is still using C. (Yes I still use it myself, but...).

[+] [email protected] -12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Why 'exactly' is it bad that people are still using C, a language with 4 decades of toolchain and library build-up, instead of a shitlang like Rust that is mainly used to create garbage webapps?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Ooooh, luddism is so edgy!

And no, Rust is not primarily used to generate web apps, shitty or otherwise. You're thinking of JavaScript.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Cool, as I just said, Rust is more of a 'fandom' than a 'compiler' really, it's also not much of a 'language'. I use C because it's standardized by ISO, not some basement-dwelling incels who keep RFCi'ing their ideas instead of implementing it their own.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

If C is so great, why do you have to hack in garbage collection?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Please refrain from using slurs and disparage people for no good reason on our instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Alright sorry. I'm just trolling people. If you go to my profile I have a lot of Rust projects. @hascat @FizzyOrange

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'd say you're misinformed, but it requires some real idiocy to be that badly misinformed and that deliberately insulting to a whole programming language community.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Rust is a "shitlang"?

Ok.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Wow, I would love to understand what leads to such insane views. Like, did Rust kill your father or something?

I'm actually serious, why do you have such love for a bad (by modern standards) language like C and such hatred for a great language like Rust?