Re: C++ and garbage collection

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* Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * Enrico Weigelt:
> 
> >> GCC includes a tr1::shared_ptr so there's no extra dependency if you
> >> are only planning to use g++, and std::shared_ptr is part of C++0x.
> >
> > How does that one actually work and what do I have to do to use it ?
> 
> What's the oldest GCC version you're targeting?

Quite old, still some 3.x (can have a look when I'm back in office
tomorrow ...)

> Modern GCC has std::unique_ptr (zero-overhead pointer wrapper with
> RAII semantics), std::shared_ptr and std::make_shared (avoiding a
> separate allocation using operator new).  This should work after some
> adjustments, as long as your data structures are acyclic.  You just
> have to avoid taking short-cuts to optimize things, using references
> and plain pointers instead of the std:: wrappers.  

We make quite heavy use of references.


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