manual memory management
Mehrdad
wfunction at hotmail.com
Wed Jan 9 00:54:10 PST 2013
On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 08:51:47 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 08:28:44 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 08:14:35 UTC, Walter Bright
>> wrote:
>>> On 1/8/2013 11:42 PM, Mehrdad wrote:
>>>> (True, it wouldn't give you the power of a systems language,
>>>> but that's quite
>>>> obviouly not my point -- the point is that it's a _perfectly
>>>> possible_
>>>> memory-safe language which we made, so I don't understand
>>>> Walter's comment about
>>>> a GC being "required" for a memory-safe language.)
>>>
>>>
>>> The misunderstanding is you are not considering reference
>>> counting as a form of GC. It is.
>>
>> So you would say that C++ code (which uses reference counting)
>> uses garbage collection?
>
> Yes.
You (or Walter I guess) are the first person I've seen who calls
C++ garbage collected.
> Oh, a bit off topic but are you aware that C++11 has a GC API?
Yes, but I'm not aware of any code which claims to have written a
GC for it.
> --
> Paulo
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