Christopher Smith on 2 Jul 2003 16:19:01 -0000 |
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Re: [ALACPP] smart pointers in C |
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 _______________________________________________ alacpp mailing list alacpp@xxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/alacpp