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GCC plugin for C language that tracks references to allocated objects

5 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 2 stories, 3 comments · first 2024-05-17 · latest 2025-03-18

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  1. https://github.com/acbits/reftrack-plugin Hey, I wrote this GCC plugin to automate reference counting in C. Any bug reports welcome.
    comment by acbits · 2025-03-18 · in Stupid Smart Pointers in C
  2. https://github.com/acbits/reftrack-plugin I wrote a compiler extension just for this issue since there wasn't any.
    comment by acbits · 2024-10-25 · in Why Safety Profiles Failed
  3. https://github.com/acbits/reftrack-plugin I wrote this GCC plugin for this exact reason. Let's see whether the kernel team is interested in adopting it.
    comment by acbits · 2024-10-18 · in Smart pointers for the kernel