Hi Experts,
I've just joined this group and want to know something:
Is there something similar to smart pointers in C or something to
prevent memory leakages in C programs.
Regards
MotoK
Sep 12 '06
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Ancient_Hacker wrote:
MotoK wrote:
>>Hi Experts,
I've just joined this group and want to know something:
Is there something similar to smart pointers in C or something to
prevent memory leakages in C programs.
Regards
MotoK
IMHO you can't do that in C. C gives you complete freedom to make
copies of pointers, do pointer arithmetic, pass the address of a
pointer, call arbitrary functions written in bizarre languages--- all
things that will screw up smart pointers and garbage collection to a
fare-thee-well, or at least a seg fault.
What I do is write a logging malloc() and free() so at the end of the
program it can print out "37122 unfreed blocks using 293455128 bytes".
And then a list of file names and lines where those blocks were
malloc'ed.
You are wrong what GC is concerned.
Normal C programs do not need a lot of care to use the GC,
and unless you explicitely hide the pointers from the GC
garbage collection will work perfectly with C.
jacob navia <ja***@jacob.re mcomp.frwrites:
[...]
You are wrong what GC is concerned.
Normal C programs do not need a lot of care to use the GC,
and unless you explicitely
.... or implicitly ...
hide the pointers from the GC
garbage collection will work perfectly with C.
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keit h) ks***@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <* <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:52:06 +0200, in comp.lang.c , jacob navia
<ja***@jacob.re mcomp.frwrote:
>Bill Pursell a écrit :
>Which doesn't exist in standard C. lcc-win32 may provide
one, but it isn't standard C and it's generally a bad idea
to rely on a GC. If you are programming at a level where
you want a garbage collector, then you shouldn't be
programming in C. (My opinion.)
C is for "macho" programmers that drink beer and
are just backwards.
Thats not what he said, and as usual you post a silly reply which
serves no purpose except to damage the rest of your post and set
people against you.
>This is of course YOUR opinion. I beg to differ.
You could have posted this bit alone, and sounded rational instead of
stupid.
>Look dear, I use an automatic drive, and do not care about
passing gears when driving you see?
Statistically, you're 14% more likely to have an accident in bad
weather in an automatic*.
>I'm not aware of gcc support for a garbage collector for C. It
supports
garbage collection for objective-C, but I don't believe it provides
it for C.
The garbage collector is "language agnostic" and will work for C,
C++ or objective C in the same fashion.
I sincerely doubt this. Gathering garbage created by programmers
forgetting to delete objects or call destructors is somewhat different
to that created by programmers forgetting to call free, or pointing
pointers around randomly.
*or so a bloke in the pub told me. He's probably as reliable as
anyone.
--
Mark McIntyre
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan
Mark McIntyre wrote:
<ja***@jacob.re mcomp.frwrote:
.... snip ...
>
>Look dear, I use an automatic drive, and do not care about
passing gears when driving you see?
Statistically, you're 14% more likely to have an accident in bad
weather in an automatic*.
The next time you run out of fuel and stall on a railroad crossing,
and want to walk the car out of the way of the train with the
starter motor, please describe how you do that when equipped with a
slush box.
--
"I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years
ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago.
You can't go beyond possibility." -- Mark Twain
--
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CBFalconer wrote:
Mark McIntyre wrote:
>><ja***@jacob. remcomp.frwrote :
.... snip ...
>>>Look dear, I use an automatic drive, and do not care about
passing gears when driving you see?
Statistically , you're 14% more likely to have an accident in bad
weather in an automatic*.
The next time you run out of fuel and stall on a railroad crossing,
and want to walk the car out of the way of the train with the
starter motor, please describe how you do that when equipped with a
slush box.
slush box?
--
Ian Collins.
CBFalconer said:
Mark McIntyre wrote:
><ja***@jacob.r emcomp.frwrote:
... snip ...
>>
>>Look dear, I use an automatic drive, and do not care about
passing gears when driving you see?
Statisticall y, you're 14% more likely to have an accident in bad
weather in an automatic*.
The next time you run out of fuel and stall on a railroad crossing,
Having driven for a great many years, I am pleased to report that I have
never, ever run out of fuel. This is not mere luck. It is the result of
forethought.
Having driven for a great many years, I am pleased to report that I have
never, ever stalled on a level crossing. This is not mere luck. It is the
result of forethought.
The chance of my doing either of these is vanishingly small, and the chance
of doing both simultaneously is epsilon squared.
On the other hand, you wouldn't catch me driving an automatic, at least not
through choice.
--
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999 http://www.cpax.org.uk
email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)
Hello All,
Well i got some inputs like GC and logging utility.Thanks to all.
MotoK wrote:
Hello All,
Well i got some inputs like GC and logging utility.Thanks to all.
You are off topic. This is a thread about "slush boxes".
Richard Heathfield wrote:
>
On the other hand, you wouldn't catch me driving an automatic, at least not
through choice.
Ahhh OK. I understand now why you are against the GC.
I drive an automatic, relaxed, no effort, the machine works for
me, not the other way around...
jacob
jacob navia said:
Richard Heathfield wrote:
>>
On the other hand, you wouldn't catch me driving an automatic, at least
not through choice.
Ahhh OK. I understand now why you are against the GC.
What makes you think I'm against automatic garbage collection? What I'm
against is the claim that C provides it.
I drive an automatic, relaxed, no effort,
There's nothing particularly arduous about using a manual gearbox, and you
have more control over the machine. There's nothing particularly arduous
about managing memory, either. But if you don't want to do it, fine, use
automatic garbage collection by all means. I don't have a problem with
that. But C does not provide automatic garbage collection.
--
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999 http://www.cpax.org.uk
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