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Smart pointers for the kernel

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169 points signa11 | 5 comments | 18 Oct 24 02:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.67s | source
1. acbits ◴[18 Oct 24 03:30 UTC] No.41876106[source]▶
https://github.com/acbits/reftrack-plugin

I wrote this GCC plugin for this exact reason. Let's see whether the kernel team is interested in adopting it.

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2. brenns10 ◴[18 Oct 24 04:31 UTC] No.41876354[source]▶
I searched lore.kernel.org and couldn't find any postings that propose using this in the kernel. I'd encourage you to share a proposal, otherwise the "kernel team" will never be interested, because they'll never hear of it.
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3. acbits ◴[18 Oct 24 07:01 UTC] No.41876996[source]▶
I will send it again. It probably got lost in the high traffic volume of LKML last year.
4. pornel ◴[18 Oct 24 15:45 UTC] No.41880485[source]▶
That's cool, but it'd be nice to also have a distinction between a get and a copy (like ObjC) or borrow/move (like Rust) to avoid redundant increments and decrements.
5. glouwbug ◴[19 Oct 24 17:40 UTC] No.41889244[source]▶
I love high quality C++ that reads like C but doesn’t throw away the STL or litter everything with const