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From: "Martin Krischik" <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: Type safety on wikipedia
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You can manualy free memory - provided all pointers pointing to the
freed memory are set to null at the same time. And access to a null
pointer is handled in orderly manner.

This could be implemented by using a linked list of smart pointers. GC
is only one option open.

Martin