[boost] Re: rc, gc & os smart pointer

From: Philippe A. Bouchard (philippeb_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-17 11:03:43

"Larry Evans" <jcampbell3_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:3D873DCE.3010501_at_prodigy.net...
> This sounds somewhat like the method in Laine Stump's article in
> _EXE_, vol. 7, Issue 10 on April 1993. The article's title is:
> "Garbage Collection in C++". Could you get a copy of this and see how
> it compares? For example, Laine uses a class, tGCPtr, where "Each
> tGCPtr has a second tGCObject* which points to the object containing
> this tGCPtr (its 'parent') or contains 0 if the tGCPtr is global or
> auto". This 2nd member sounds like your placed_ptr_header ::m_owner.

Sure (I hope Ottawa U has some references).

Philippe A. Bouchard