[poppler] Some C++11 in poppler?

[Adrian Johnson]

On 30/05/16 06:20, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> Hi guys, what do you think of us adding "some" of the C++11 features in 
> poppler?

I am in favor of using C++11.

> 
> One that would be useful for example is std::unique_ptr, that is a class that 
> will take ownership of a pointer and delete it when it goes out of scope.
> 
> That's really useful in poppler where we have lots of
> 
> if (!foo) { error; return; }
> 
> where we randomly forget to delete stuff.
> 
> See the patch Vincent proposed to fix the leak of colorMap in https://
> bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=124163
> 
> It's tricky and noone guarantees it will not break next time we introduce 
> another check somewhere.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert
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