manual memory management
deadalnix
deadalnix at gmail.com
Tue Jan 8 22:57:33 PST 2013
On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 06:56:00 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8 January 2013 at 22:19:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> One thing I'd add is that a GC is *required* if you want to
>> have a language that guarantees memory safety
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> Pardon? shared_ptr anyone? You can totally have a language
> that only provides new/delete facilities and which only access
> to memory through managed pointers like shared_ptr... without a
> GC. I don't see where a GC is "required" as you say.
Such a program is guaranteed to have memory leak, unless you add
a GC on top of the managed pointers.
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