[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] Use of Smart Pointers in LLVM Projects

Nico Weber thakis at chromium.org
Thu Jul 17 17:42:27 PDT 2014


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Lang Hames <lhames at gmail.com> wrote:

> Where unique_ptr fits the memory ownership model I'm all for using it. The
> syntactic overhead is a small price to pay for self-documentation and
> compile-time guarantees.
>

+1. I liked the patches that added unique_ptrs I've seen so far. WebKit
also heavily uses pointer classes (OwnPtr etc) heavily, and I think it
works well there too.
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