Re: [boost] interest poll: smart pointers that handle circular references

From: Ariane van der Steldt (ariane_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-11 00:39:34

I made a zip file of the current code and posted this on the vault as 
libreference.zip
http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=libreference.zip&directory=&

There are still some bugs and the current user documentation is probably 
cryptic and certainly unfinished. I wipped it up in a few hours.

The library is currently only for interested people and certainly not 
production ready. Although most of the interfaces are stable at this 
point. The coding style may not be fully conformant to the boost coding 
style, I haven't checked yet.

The makefile is also quickly made and thus does not support dependancy 
checking. If you make alterations, run a 'make clean' prior to 'make 
all'. Comments are very welcome.

For people interested in the implementation of the garbage collector, 
the file libreference/include/reference/manager/black_white_grey.h 
contains the function
reference::manager::black_white_grey::collect_garbage()
which implements the algorithm used.
One of the things I want to do is to take out all the #ifdef 
BOOST_HAS_THREADS since they make the code harder to read.

Ariane