Re: [Firebird-devel] Reference counters in API - was Re: Providers, yvalve, external engines and object lifecycle

[Alex P. <pes...@ma...>]

 On 03/30/11 18:39, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
>>     Do you see the difference ?
>>
> If user pass an invalid pointer parameter, it *will* crash in our code:
>
> provider->attachDatabase((Status*) 0x1, (char*) 0x1, ...);
>
> We can't prevent wrong program from crashing in our code. The same is about:
>
> freedObject->something();

Adriano, without reference counts we really can't prevent crash with
freedObject. And one of main reasons for reference counters to exist -
prevent such crashes.