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Re: RFC - Alternatives to gengtype
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Basile Starynkevitch
<basile@starynkevitch.net> wrote:
> I really think that GCC need some form of garbage collector.
> If it is Ggc+gengtype (to be improved), or Boehm GC, or even
> some other GC (for instance both
> http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/qishintro.html and
> http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/branches/melt-branch/gcc/melt-runtime.c
> are or contain precise copying collectors that I wrote, and with
> some effort that could be made nicely compatible with C++).
> But my feeling is that a lot of people don't want GCC to
> have any kind of garbage collector and dream of having only manual
> allocation & de-allocation (I Basile personally think that it is not realistic
> and not desirable, because it will make future contributions to GCC much more
> costly to develop, and I probably would myself lose interest in GCC
> when garbage collection will be removed).
What's wrong with std::shared_ptr?