[alpatters]

> With C you can easily get better (that is, safer) than C++ native MM just building a reference counting system on top of your C "objects".

Why build your own when C++ has std::shared_ptr.

[antirez]

I was referring about how to do it with C.

[muks]

Hi antirez

C doesn't have a destructor that gets called when something goes out of scope. That's taken advantage of in C++ (RAII) to implement various things (like scoped_ptr that helps avoid leaks).

Refcounting is also not perfect for every case.

But I like and prefer C. ;) Just pointing out one thing different in C++.

[thwest]

How is a C implementation of std::shared_ptr safer?