Re: [boost] Is there interest for a small portable garbage collection library?

From: Larry Evans (cppljevans_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-20 15:15:17

On 05/20/2006 12:25 PM, Achilleas Margaritis wrote:
>>How is the precision achieved without compiler support?
> 
> 
> The class 'ptr' (used for global and stack pointers) pushes itself in 
> the current collector's stack on construction and removes itself from 
> that stack on destruction. Example:
> 
> ptr<Foo> ptr1 = new Foo;
> 
> The class 'member_ptr' is registered to the owner object in the owner 
> object's constructor. Example:
> 
> class Foo : public object {
>      member_ptr<Foo> next;
>      Foo() : next(this) {
>      }
> };
> 
[snip]
If Foo is on the stack, is Foo::next pushed on current collector's
stack?  If std::vector<Foo> is on the stack, are all it's contained 
Foo::next's pushed on the current collector's stack?