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Subject: [boost] Potential scoped_ptr improvement
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-29 21:01:07


The incantation

    scoped_ptr<Base> x( new Derived );

will succeed and produce undefined behavior upon x's destruction unless
Derived has a trivial or virtual d'tor.

It would be pretty easy to prevent something like that from compiling
when has_virtual_destructor<Base>::value is false. Thoughts?

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Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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