Proposing switch -fsmart-pointers

[Florian Weimer]

On 10/05/2012 06:08 PM, _ wrote:

> What you guys think about this?

I think we should wait if the Rust folks come up with a sound (in the 
type-theoretic sense) and useful (in terms of programmer burden) 
solution.  After that, we can contemplate whether we can retrofit their 
solution onto C/C++.   Rust is a new language, with no concern for 
backwards compatibility, but if it turns out that this is impossible to 
solve there, it won't work for C/C++, either.

In the meantime, there is the cleanup attribute, and C++ already has 
several kinds of smart pointers.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team