On 04/03/2016 12:31 PM, Larry Evans wrote:
On 04/01/2016 12:25 AM, Phil Bouchard wrote:
Greetings,
- "Root Pointer" is an alternative to the long unsolved problem of garbage collectors which lasted for more than 70 years!
- Thanks to Paul A. Bristow for his help on the generation of the documentation which is now available at the following link: http://philippeb8.github.io/root_ptr/
Judging just from:
http://philippeb8.github.io/root_ptr/root_ptr/rationale.html
I would guess a root_ptr *must* be on the stack. However, I didn't find anything in the following:
https://github.com/philippeb8/root_ptr/blob/master/include/boost/smart_ptr/r...
http://philippeb8.github.io/root_ptr/header/boost/smart_ptr/root_ptr_hpp.htm...
to support this.
Could you please clarify?
No root_ptr doesn't necessarily need to be on the stack; it can be a member of a container class allocated on the heap for example. So a root_ptr will most likely be either allocated on the stack, the data segment or a class member allocated on the heap. It is a "root" and once destroyed all associated node_ptr are guaranteed to be wiped out as well.