Does Bstrlib support garbage collection?
A. No. Certainly not directly. bstrings and CBStrings need to be correctly destroyed much like any allocated memory or object in C/C++ to avoid memory leaks. That said, both implementations allocate memory via malloc, realloc or new, so the garbage collection mechanisms that do exist for C/C++ (such as the Boehm garbage collector) should integrate with Bstrlib without issue. Schemes such as “reference counting” do not work in a language like C without a lot of hand holding (ADT construction, copying and destruction would have to precisely track references to any contained strings) and can inhibit the creation of thread safe solutions.
