Ooo, you made me check and Rust has the same memory model for their Rc/Arc as C++'s shared_ptr. This is something I'll have to remember when using either language.
I've just started with Rust... so you're saying that you can end up in a same situation as I described in C++?
Yep! If you look at the Rust Arc/Rc source here you'll see they have the same memory representation.
However, the fix is a little bit less errorprone to write. You simply need to do Rc<Box<WhateverStruct>>
Rc<Box<WhateverStruct>>
ech... and people say that C++ is a complex language :) Rust also looks scary :) Thanks for sharing
Ha that's a direct link to the source (and that was just to show you the memory layout).
Here's a much more user-friendly view into the non-thread-safe version of shared_ptr (the thread safe version is called Arc):
Arc
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Ooo, you made me check and Rust has the same memory model for their Rc/Arc as C++'s shared_ptr. This is something I'll have to remember when using either language.
I've just started with Rust... so you're saying that you can end up in a same situation as I described in C++?
Yep! If you look at the Rust Arc/Rc source here you'll see they have the same memory representation.
However, the fix is a little bit less errorprone to write. You simply need to do
Rc<Box<WhateverStruct>>ech... and people say that C++ is a complex language :)
Rust also looks scary :)
Thanks for sharing
Ha that's a direct link to the source (and that was just to show you the memory layout).
Here's a much more user-friendly view into the non-thread-safe version of shared_ptr (the thread safe version is called
Arc):