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Smart pointers for the kernel

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169 points signa11 | 1 comments | 18 Oct 24 02:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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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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1. 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.