Re: Good idea or gimmick: Go-style OO-programming in C++ ?
On Monday, 11 March 2013 04:26:50 UTC+2, woodb...@gmail.com wrote:
I will report one thing.
#if 0
char* CstringGive ()
{
::cmw::marshalling_integer slen(*this);
char* cstr = ::new char[slen.value + 1];
try {
Give(cstr, slen.value);
*(cstr + slen.value) = '\0';
} catch (...) {
::delete [] cstr;
throw;
}
return cstr;
}
#else
char* CstringGive ()
Error! I see 'char*' my rules suggested against raw pointers. ;)
{
::cmw::marshalling_integer slen(*this);
::std::unique_ptr<char[]> cstr(::new char[slen.value + 1]);
You should not use smart pointers for dynamic arrays. Use std::vector
or std::string. Smart pointer does 'delete', not 'delete[]' and so
you result with undefined behavior.
Give(cstr.get(), slen.value);
*(cstr.get() + slen.value) = '\0';
return cstr.get();
}
#endif
An executable produced by g++ 4.7.2 with -Os is 32 bytes
larger using the second version than the first. Maybe it's
a weakness of this compiler? :)
Some bytes here or there. I was suggesting that RAII is better
versus GC. Stefan Ram asked how to avoid leaks, I suggested
robust rules for applying RAII. I did not say that it is
cost-free in all situations. 'char*' usually loses even to
'std::string' in performance. Vital length information is
missing in 'char*'. That is important for most operations
with strings and so algorithms have to search for terminator
'\0' with it.
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