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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: memory management in Ada: tedious without GC?
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Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 17:03:38 +0200
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jhc0033@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);

and take it from there. Won't have the same syntax - but the semantic is
doable.

Martin
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