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5791 :: Writing Nim without garbage collection

• iamrifki (orginal) [2020-01-10T13:16:29+01:00] view original

  I'll be using Nim on old Gameboy Advance hardware that cannot handle Garbage collection. So I will have to turn Garbage collection off for Nim, are there any gotchas that I have to face and know if I want my code to run without any memory leaks?

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• Araq (orginal) [2020-01-10T13:56:46+01:00] view original

  There are lots of ways to do this but I want people to use --gc:arc so go ahead and use it and report bugs and problems you encounter. Note that Nim's --gc option is actually misnamed and should have been called "memory management strategy".

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• mratsim (orginal) [2020-01-10T14:39:56+01:00] view original

  I personally vote for memory reclamation scheme

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• iamrifki (orginal) [2020-01-10T17:49:55+01:00] view original

  I tried it, but sadly

  
  C:\Users\rifkik\Documents\Code\RioluCookies (master)
  λ make
  Hint: used config file 'C:\Users\rifkik\nim\config\nim.cfg' [Conf]
  Hint: used config file 'C:\Users\rifkik\Documents\Code\RioluCookies\nim.cfg' [Conf]
  Hint: used config file 'C:\Users\rifkik\nim\config\config.nims' [Conf]
  Hint: system [Processing]
  C:\Users\rifkik\nim\lib\system\mmdisp.nim(505, 24) Error: undeclared identifier: 'Cell'
  make: *** [Makefile:129: all] Error 1
  Run

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• Araq (orginal) [2020-01-10T19:06:45+01:00] view original

  This error does not indicate a bug on our side.

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• iamrifki (orginal) [2020-01-10T19:13:35+01:00] view original

  I think it's because of unimplemented features that this package uses?, not sure really.

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• Araq (orginal) [2020-01-10T20:10:41+01:00] view original

  Feel free to give us more information, maybe even a real bug report.

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