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		tptacek on Nov 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cello High Level C: A Fat Pointer Library This is also a common, and sometimes exploitable, coding error with C++ smart pointers. I agree with you: I'm not sure how this is any more powerful than any encapsulated ADT-style foo_t-wraps-a-void-star C library.

Buge on Nov 9, 2015 [–]

Well with C++ unique_ptr and shared_ptr you cant ++ or += or even get a raw pointer without explicitly calling .get().

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