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From: twelch@mediaone.net (Timothy Welch)
Subject: Re: Why C++ is successful
Date: 1998/08/07
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On Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:21:17 -0700, Brian Rogoff
<bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:

>I have nothing against GC, in fact I like it in general and wish its use
>was more widespread, but a very large part of your problem is that the
>language you are working in 
>
>(1) Doesn't distinguish between pointers to local variables and pointers 
>    to heap allocated memory.
>
>(2) Allows you to get a pointer to any local variable, rather than forcing 
>    you to be explicit about which local variables can be pointed to, or 
>    "aliased". 
>
>(3) Makes it easy to do all kinds of other arbitrary weird things with
>    pointers. 
>

Out of curiousity why are (1) and (2) problems? Can't the GC just
check to see if the pointer is pointing to memory on the stack?


Tim