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Re: GCC 5 & modularity
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:49:24 +0000
Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 March 2012 16:56, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
> >
> > ? * a garbage collector. Even a modular GCC need some memory management policy (and
> > ref-counting à la GTK, or à la std::shared_ptr is not enough IMHO inside a compiler
> > because a compiler has much more complex and circular data structures, and much less
> > hierarchically organized, that a graphical tookit has).
>
> As has been pointed out to you before, shared_ptr is designed to be
> useful even with circular structures. Please read about weak_ptr.
Then why has it not being used before?
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