[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] Small improvement at genlist and maphand

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 01:44:26AM +0200, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > The scary thing is that this is a very strong justification for
> > using C++, with its automatic constructors and destructors.
> 
> AFAIK constructors and destructors do not solve the dangling pointer
> problem.  That is, if you do 
> 
>   delete foo;
> 
> you do not automagically destroy all pointers to foo.

Yes. The solution is garbage collection. There are some for C++ but I
have never seen or used one. Java made it clear how easy for the
programmer this can be.

        Raimar

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