Memory Safety without a GC or Ref Counting

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-01-21 18:37, F i L wrote:
> So I've been thinking about this problem off and on for awhile, and I
> think I have a rather simple solution. I highly doubt I'm the first to
> think of it, but haven't found any info about a similar idea on the net.
> So in the interest of science I'm posting it here so anyone interested
> can attempt to poke holes in the idea, which you folks have been so good
> at in the past.

Seems a bit like ARC (Automatic Reference Counting) that Clang has 
implemented for Objective-C (and some C libraries on Mac OS X). The 
compiler automatically inserts calls to "retain" and "release" where 
appropriate.

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/Jacob Carlborg