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P3790R2 Pointer lifetime-end zap proposed solutions: Bag-of-bits pointer class P. McKenney, M. Michael, J. Maurer, P. Sewell, H. Boehm, H. Tong, N. Douglas, T. Rodgers, W. Deacon, M. Wong, D. Goldblatt, K. Serebryany, A. Williams, T. Scogland, J. Bastien, D. Krügler, D. Tenty
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Author(s) Paul E. McKenney, Maged Michael, Jens Maurer, Peter Sewell, Hans Boehm, Hubert Tong, Niall Douglas, Thomas Rodgers, Will Deacon, Michael Wong, David Goldblatt, Kostya Serebryany, Anthony Williams, Tom Scogland, JF Bastien, Daniel Krügler, David Tenty
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Abstract The C++ standard currently specifies that all pointers to an object become invalid at the end of its lifetime [basic.life]. Although this permits additional diagnostics and optimizations which might be of some value, it is not consistent with long-standing usage, especially for a range of concurrent and sequential algorithms that rely on loads, stores, equality comparisons, and even dereferencing
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