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ncannasse / webidl

Haxe support for WebIDL
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Make AutoGC Work for the JavaScript Target #15

Closed zicklag closed 5 years ago

zicklag commented 5 years ago

Currently the AutoGC option doesn't do anything for the JavaScript target. The WebIDL binder that comes with Emscripten and is used for Ammo.js does do some kind of wrapping of the generated bindings that allows the pointers to be garbage collected by JavaScript. I don't understand exactly how this works, but I'll have to try to take the same concept and implement it here.

If anybody else understands it I could use some pointers. :slightly_smiling_face:

zicklag commented 5 years ago

Looks like this actually isn't possible to do for JS, unfortunately. :slightly_frowning_face: ( see https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/issues/8206#issuecomment-468031992 ). Should maybe update the autoGC flag to be hlAutoGC or something else specific to HL to avoid confusion.