Re: [ALACPP] smart pointers in C

[Christopher Smith <x@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 07:43, Josh Dybnis wrote:
> I don't think that it is possible to do smart pointers in C. The reason
> why, is that there is no way in C to associate a piece of code with a
> value, in such a way that the code is automatically executed when the
> value is stored into a variable, or conversly when the value is taken
> out of a variable (either because the variable goes out of scope or
> another value is stored in it). In C++ this can be done with 
> constructors, a destrutor, a copy constructor, and an overloaded
> assignment operator.

In C you can do smart pointers through the mechanisms like handles. It's
not as pretty as the C++ approach, but it works.

--Chris
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