[news.eclipse.tools.emf] Re: EMF C++ runtime support?

[Lorenzo Bettini <bettini@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Reinhold Bihler wrote:
> Jose,
>  
> C++ code generation and runtime support for EMF would be very cool! In 
> the company

I definitely agree! :-)

> Translating EMF's runtime to C++ I see at least the following challenges:
> - C++ lacks the concept of a garbage collector for automatic memory 
> management. This
>     could be solved by using a smart pointer concept (see e.g. 
> http://www.boost.org/libs/smart_ptr/smart_ptr.htm )

I think using boost shared pointers would be a nice solution, provided 
there are no cycles in pointer relations, which, as far as I remember, 
are not handled by shared pointers

> - C++ lacks imho a "real" standard library. I know there is the STL but 
> in comparison to the
>     Java SDK API or the .Net SDK libraries the provided functionality is 
> very limited. The EMF
>     runtime uses different list and map implementations. This is done by 
> extending basic list and
>     map implementations. I am not sure how this could be done by 
> extending the STL list and map
>     implementations (I am by no means a C++ guru but guess a real guru 
> would find a way ;-).
>     Probably there are open source C++ libraries that could help to 
> overcome C++ lack of standard

I think that the stl would be enough, and one could extend stl classes...

cheers
	Lorenzo

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