P2186 Removing Garbage Collection Support

[wg21bot]

P2186R0 Removing Garbage Collection Support (JF Bastien, Alisdair Meredith)

[jfbastien]

EWG reviewed this in a telecon on July 30th and took the following non-binding poll:

Remove (not deprecate) garbage collection support in C++23.
SF F N A SA
3 9 4 0 1

[jfbastien]

Bryce says to review in meeting.

[ben-craig]

P2186R0: Removing Garbage Collection Support

2020-12-14 Library Evolution Telecon Minutes

Chair: Ben Craig

Champion: JF Bastien

Minute Taker: Inbal Levi

Start: 2020-12-14 09:35 Pacific Standard

POLL: Remove (not deprecate) pointer safety in C++23, after moving names to zombie names.

Strongly Favor	Weakly Favor	Neutral	Weakly Against	Strongly Against
10	4	3	0	0

Attendance: 24

# of Authors: 1

Author Position: SF

Outcome: EWG may continue with this paper.

End: 09:45

SUMMARY:
The main discussion revolved around seeing if there were any implementations that implemented this, and discussing immediate removal vs. deprecation. LEWG was fine with immediate removal.

OUTCOME:
EWG may continue with this paper. Please add the removed names to [zombie.names]