Zig gamedev project – left my job to build games in Zig lang

Re:Zig gamedev project – left my job to build games in Zig lang by pcwalton on Monday October 18, 2021 @06:32PM (#28912660)

> the only memory safety gamedev needs are bound checking and use after free protections

Disagree, but in any case, we're talking about the fact that Zig doesn't provide use-after-free protection.

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Re:Zig gamedev project – left my job to build games in Zig lang by Shadonototra on Monday October 18, 2021 @06:52PM (#28912831)

Zig is allocator aware, use after free protection is covered with the ``GeneralPurposeAllocator``

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Re:Zig gamedev project – left my job to build games in Zig lang by pcwalton on Monday October 18, 2021 @07:03PM (#28912933)

Is GeneralPurposeAllocator the one that quarantines memory forever? That isn't practical, as I've mentioned before. To name one problem, allocating 1 byte in a 4kB page leaks the entire page.

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