Re: [boost] request for interest in a garbage collection library

Subject: Re: [boost] request for interest in a garbage collection library
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-14 12:19:34

Achilleas Margaritis wrote:

> There are three ways to add garbage collection to an object:
> 
> 1) inherit from gc_object<T>.
> 2) wrap your class in gc_wrapper<T>.
> 3) allocate your object with new(T_deleter)..
> 
> But you should modify your pointers to be gc_ptr<T> instances for this to 
> work.

So, comparing your framework to C++/CLI:
- new(T_deleter) is like gcnew
- gc_ptr<T> is like T^
- inheriting from gc_object<T> is like declaring a class as being a ref 
class

Is that right?