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Jens Geyer commented on THRIFT-2471: ------------------------------------ {quote} I'd rather not try to fix cycles magically. MSRPC / DCE tries to do lots of smart things with pointers, and it's hard to understand, and hard to maintain. {quote} That was one of the reasons for {{graph<>}} (see THRIFT-2005), it is designed as an _extension_ on top of the the existing stuff, not interfering with it. Internally, {{graph<>}} uses a container and serializes as a {{list<>}} of node data. If one choses to use a {{graph<>}}, it would be an design decision. > Make cpp.ref annotation language agnostic > ----------------------------------------- > > Key: THRIFT-2471 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-2471 > Project: Thrift > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Compiler (General) > Reporter: Jens Geyer > > The proposal is to make the new {{cpp.ref}} annotation introduced with > THRIFT-2421 language agnostic instead of a C++ specialty only. > The annotation changes inlined nested structs into pointers to structs. This > behaviour is potentially relevant with all languages using value semantics > for nested structs etc. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)