RE: [pooma-dev] Re: Ref counting

[James Crotinger]

Something else is wrong. Array and Field are just wrappers around ref-counted engines. Thus there should be no problem doing something like:

   Array<1> foo()
   {
        Array<1> retval(10,10);
        retval = 3;
        return retval;
   }

Memory could be getting stepped on, or he might be returning a reference instead of a value.

        Jim

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Mitchell [mailto:address@hidden]
>Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 2:43 PM
>To: Nils H. Busch; address@hidden
>Subject: [pooma-dev] Re: Ref counting
>
>> Is there a way to increase ref count of object to reference it outside
>> of function scope or am trying to do something deprecated ? Should I be
>> passing in a reference argument and initialize Array/Field in the
>> function ?
>
>I suggest allocating the new Array/Field with "new", rather than as a
>local variable, and then returning it the pointer.
>
>Jeffrey, do you have alternative ideas?
>
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