Is it possible to adapt unique_ptr for plain c?
Perhaps if there is a way of simulating calls to a home made “constructor/destructor” when calling malloc/free?
Is it doable? Or is it just a silly idea?
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Is it possible to adapt unique_ptr for plain c?
Perhaps if there is a way of simulating calls to a home made “constructor/destructor” when calling malloc/free?
Is it doable? Or is it just a silly idea?
The whole point of a “smart pointer” is to do certain tasks automatically on destruction. Since C doesn’t have destructors there’s no way to accomplish this except with explicit function calls – but that’s how you deallocate memory in C already.
You could possibly make a list of pointers that need to be freed and do them all at the same time with a single function call.