Bounced due to low attachment size limit. I uploaded a copy of the draft
paper to:

https://dedi5.nedprod.com/static/files/other/Dxxxx%20draft%202%20-%20Enhanced%20C%2B%2B%20memory%20and%20object%20model.pdf

Niall

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Subject: Draft 2 of Enhanced C/C++ memory and object model
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 13:16:10 +0000
From: Niall Douglas <s_sourceforge_at_[hidden]>
To: ub_at_[hidden]
CC: Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt_at_[hidden]>, Uecker, Martin
<Martin.Uecker_at_[hidden]>, Hal Finkel <hfinkel_at_[hidden]>

Dear SG12,

CC: Relevant members of WG14, and Hal

Please find attached draft 2 of my upcoming SG12 and WG14 targeted paper
proposing an enhanced memory and object model for C++ and C based around
implementing a subset of P1434 "Discussing pointer provenance" to make
much more rigorous the modification of memory, and adding two new core
operations to objects:

1. Detachment, the reinterpretation of a live object into an array of
bytes representing that object.

2. Attachment, the reinterpretation of a previously detached object
representation into a live object.

It is believed that these changes are sufficient to implement memory
shared between concurrent processes, memory mapped in from another
device by DMA, process bootstrap from a database of shared binary
Modules, and the elemental operations for implementing zero-copy
serialisation and deserialisation.

One also gains object relocation in memory, and substantially enhanced
default move implementations which can use CPU registers for object
transport.


I appreciate that this proposal is huge, the standardese in the paper
meagre and incomplete, and chances of success are very low. Still, I
hope to discuss it at Cologne and subsequent SG12 meetings, if Gaby
wishes to give time to it. I'll also be taking it to the May WG14
meeting, and see how much the C folk hate it.

Feedback is welcome.

Niall