Is it possible to introduce Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) to C++?

Question

Objective C has introduced a technology called ARC to free the developer from the burden of memory management. It sounds great, I think C++ developers would be very happy if g++

Answer 1

There's no need. We have shared pointers that do this for us. In fact, we have a range of pointer types for a variety of different circumstances, but shared pointers mimic exactly what ARC is doing.

See:

std::shared_ptr<>

boost::shared_ptr<>