Garbage Collector for C++
This is an experimental project which enables user not to take care of manual release of Dynamically allocated memory when it goes out of use or goes into the state when it will no longer be used.
Here, Reference Counting method is used for creating the Garbage Collector.
What is Reference counting?
Reference counting approach is super simple. It is based on the idea of counting the number of pointer references to each allocated object. It’s a direct method that also happens to be naturally incremental as it distributes the memory management overhead throughout the program. Read more...
Usage
Include the files inside src folder and add
#include "GCPtr.cpp"into your file and your good to go. For usage take a look at the examples folder.
Restrictions
- You can't use GCPtr object as a global object.
- You must always specify the size, in case of allocating memory for arrays
- GCPtr object must point to only dynamically allocated memory using new.
- You must not free memory manually using delete.