Am 04.07.2013 23:20, schrieb Mehrdad:
On Thursday, 4 July 2013 at 21:11:57 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Well, of course portable C++ code won't assume that you have a GC.
But portable D code will, so it really _is_ an advantage of the
language, not just the compiler...
My point was that it's perfectly possible to write C++ code which uses
a GC, not that it was normal or easy.
No, the point is that it would only with a particular C++ compiler.
It's not "C++" code if a C++ compiler can't run it correctly.
That would make it "a vendor-specific language similar to C++" code.
Yeah, it is called Managed C++ in .NET 1.x, C++/CLI starting in .NET 2.0
and C++/CX in WinRT.
Managed C++ and C++/CLI can be JITed or compiled to machine code via
NGEN. They make use of .NET GC for ref data types. There is a standard
defined for C++/CLI, ECMA-372.
C++/CX compiles to native code, while making use of COM reference
counting, the usual first level of GC algorithms.
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Paulo
