Table of Contents

of paper «A "Fruity" Approach to Memory Management in C++» see also paper's Abstract

1 Introduction

1.1 Motivation
1.2 Original German Report

2 "Shells and Fruits"

2.1 Introduction
2.2 Pointers, References - What is Next?

2.2.1 Looking back
2.2.2 Necessity of a New Type

2.3 Method

2.3.1 An Example in the "Old" Way
2.3.2 Extension 1: Memory Management with SmartPointers
2.3.3 Extension 2: Encapsulation with Shells (Handles)

3 Results

3.1 Garbage Collection

3.1.1 Introduction
3.1.2 Mark-Scan
3.1.3 Circular Structures

3.2 A Better Way to Return Objects from Functions
3.3 Comparison with Coplien
3.4 C++

3.4.1 Critics
3.4.2 Advantages

4 Summary

5 References