Subject: Re: [boost] request for interest in a garbage collection library
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-21 12:58:15
Achilleas Margaritis wrote:
>> I even wonder how gc_ptr<T>::gc_ptr::(T*) can be a safe constructor at
>> all.
>
> What do you mean exactly?
What if I do something like
Foo foo;
gc_ptr<Foo> bar = &foo;
?
>> A fairly terrible design, that has a lot of shortcomings, some of
>> which where raised when talking of Boehm GC (basically, bad integration).
>
> What shortcomings do you specifically refer to?
I didn't understand you were overloading operator new for the class, I
thought it was a global overloading.