Re: memory management in Ada: tedious without GC?

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

jhc0033@gmail.com schrieb:
> On May 18, 8:03 am, Martin Krischik <krisc...@users.sourceforge.net>
> wrote:
>> jhc0...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> Oh, panlinguistic guru, I'd like to see you try to implement "STL" in
>>> C! I wonder if you'll go for macros or void* type casts with type
>>> sizes as explicit parameters. How will you implement automatic memory
>>> management and deep copy semantics for arbitrary user-constructed type
>>> parameters?
>> I start with:
>>
>> typeset struct Vector Vector;
>>
>> Vector* Create_Vector(int Element_Count, size_t Element_Size);
> 
> Already, this can not do what "vector<my_type> v(n)" does.
> 
>> and take it from there. Won't have the same syntax - but the semantic is
>> doable.
> 
> That's because you don't understand what RAII is, or how it interacts
> with "return" and exceptions.


I see, you insist that:

typedef Element* Element_Create();
typedef Element_Destroy(Element* An_Element);

is passed as parameters to Create_Vector so Vector can initialize and 
terminate Elements.

Ok, the syntax gets ugly, and there is some nasty casting needed now but 
still doable.

Note that while I think it was a mistake to do so GNOME is a OO 
Framework based on C.

Regards

Martin

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