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Re:A Usable C++ Dialect That Is Safe Against Memory Corruption by saagarjha on Thursday March 15, 2018 @03:15PM (#16595724)
std::weak_ptr is there for resolving reference cycles.
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Re:A Usable C++ Dialect That Is Safe Against Memory Corruption by pdpi on Thursday March 15, 2018 @08:54PM (#16597797)
Which means you have to design around it. You can definitely run into problems with cyclical shared_ptr dependencies
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Re:A Usable C++ Dialect That Is Safe Against Memory Corruption by saagarjha on Thursday March 15, 2018 @11:27PM (#16598368)
Well, you have to do this for every language that does reference counting.
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Re:A Usable C++ Dialect That Is Safe Against Memory Corruption by pjmlp on Friday March 16, 2018 @04:21AM (#16599322)
Either that, or have a cycle collector in addition to the normal reference counting optimizations.
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