Re: [gomd-devel] <TECH> working on smartPointers support

[Matthias Rechenburg]

Hey JP,

read those docs and it sounds smart to me :)
If you are not bothered by the increase of complexity, go ahead.

good night,

Matt

On Sonntag 05 Oktober 2003 23:40, Gian Paolo Ghilardi wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I've just added a preliminar (unstable) smartPointer class for the whole
> project.
> BTW a smartPointer is a special pointer (created via a class) that does
> something special. :)
> My implementation is based on a reference counter.
> We have an increment of the references when something accesses or calls the
> smart pointer.
> We have a decrement when the pointer is used no more by a "caller".
> When the reference counter reaches the 0, the smart pointer invokes the
> autocleaning so no memory leak can occur.
>
> Unfortunately this adavanced tecnique requires thread-safety and I've a
> problem with a thread while using the libgomd to get a value from remote
> host. Other stuff does work without faultlessy.
>
> However my implementation does work and you can see smart pointers killed
> => really nice to see connHandlers autocleaning themself... ;)
>
> I hope to find the problem and to fix that because smartPointers are really
> _cool_.
>
> >> Obviously no CVS commit was done. <<
>
> PS for Max: can you help me with this stuff?
>
> Byez.
>
> <rejected>
>
> REFERENCE LINKS:
> - http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1060.asp
> - http://babbage.cs.qc.edu/STL_Docs/templates.htm
> - http://www.jelovic.com/articles/smart_pointer_thread_safety.htm
> - http://www.glenmccl.com/tip_014.htm
> - http://ootips.org/yonat/4dev/smart-pointers.html
> - http://www.mike95.com/c_plusplus/tutorial/templates/functions.aspx
>
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