------- Additional Comments From pcarlini at suse dot de 2005-05-02 17:23 ------- > I don't quite understand why you want to see this issue as a memory > management policy issue, as opposed to a thread safety issue.
Whatever, after all that is the layer at which you actually do the low-level memory management. That is the level at which you decide whether actually freeing or allocating memory, no? But I don't care much about those names. > I don't quite understand what "position papers" you're talking about. > Could you give references to them to clarify the issue? Gaby, of course Herb Sutter papers, also reprinted in his book. > What are those subtle issues with memory management during exceptions? > As far as I can tell, V3 is the only one that insists on COW. Why is > it that others don't have those "subtle issues"? Because the best one, definitely have a separate mini-string of sort, what do you think? -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21334
