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I hate the whole argument of the "problem" of hanging/dangling pointers as reason for GC. Is GC only for covering up your n00b mistakes? GC will never be a re

by miratom 18y ago

I hate the whole argument of the "problem" of hanging/dangling pointers as reason for GC. Is GC only for covering up your n00b mistakes? GC will never be a reasonable management scheme for realtime or limited memory systems, where programmer responsibility and predictable behavior is required.

brl 18y ago
In the case of dangling pointers, garbage collection just converts a potential heap corruption bug into a probable memory leak instead. Not really an obvious win. At least in C you have to be conscious of memory management in order to successfully write programs that don't crash.