This repo contains my code for the Garbage Collector Project in the Object Oriented Programming Course of the Udacity C++ Nanodegree Program, Part 4: Memory Management.

Starter code (1st commit), as well as all the content below, was provided by Udacity.

The final project for this Memory Management course is to implement your own version of a smart pointer. You can think of this as implementing your own garbage collector, to use a concept from other programming languages. Building this project will help you understand both how to work with pointers and references, and also why smart pointers are so important to modern C++ programming. Complete the implementations and verify that your implementation does not have any memory leaks!

To build this project, you will need a C++ compiler. The make script provided assumes the GCC compiler, however you may substitute an equivalent C++ compiler by adjusting the make script as needed. Execute the make script, then run the compiled executable.

If the code fails to compile, the execute won't be created or will remain the last-compiled version. Adjust your code to resolve compiler errors and try again.

$ ./make
$ ./compiled

• Complete Pointer constructor
• Complete Pointer operator==
• Complete Pointer destructor
• Complete PtrDetails class