On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:49:24 +0000 Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 March 2012 16:56, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > > > > * a garbage collector. Even a modular GCC need some memory management > > policy (and > > ref-counting à la GTK, or à la std::shared_ptr is not enough IMHO inside a > > compiler > > because a compiler has much more complex and circular data structures, and > > much less > > hierarchically organized, that a graphical tookit has). > > As has been pointed out to you before, shared_ptr is designed to be > useful even with circular structures. Please read about weak_ptr. Then why has it not being used before? -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basile<at>starynkevitch<dot>net mobile: +33 6 8501 2359 8, rue de la Faiencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France *** opinions {are only mine, sont seulement les miennes} ***
