Heap allocation #3
Description
Currently reqvm programs cannot allocate programs on the heap. This should be rectified.
Models that I will likely add:
- C-like manual memory allocation and deallocation
- a GC (or more)
Design questions:
- do we want manual memory allocation to be mutually exclusive with the GC?
- should there be a way to force one model over the other anyway if the answer to the above is "no"?
- how do we treat pointers?
- should our instruction set be expanded to allow instructions to work directly on pointers?