Karl Dahlke <[email protected]> writes: > I have always wondered about gc in c++.
C++ doesn't have true GC. What it has is deterministic destruction of objects. You can use objects to manage resources (such as heap), that will be reclaimed when the object goes out of scope or is destroyed via the "delete" operator. In C++, it's called RAII, short for "resource acquisition is initialization". Turns out that you can do some really fancy stuff like ref-counted smart pointers that free the associated memory when the last referencing object goes away. This isn't true GC, but it gets you some of the benefits. -- Chris _______________________________________________ Edbrowse-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-brannons.com/mailman/listinfo/edbrowse-dev
