[Boost-users] (Serialization) Serialization for enable_shared_from_this

Subject: [Boost-users] (Serialization) Serialization for enable_shared_from_this
From: Clarke, Carus V (carus.v.clarke_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-02-23 11:46:11

Alexander Gutenev wrote a message concerning this problem on Dec. 14, and I have a similar problem, also with Boost 1.41 and 1.42.  After spending some time looking at this, the problem seems to be caused by creating the shared_ptr as a shared_ptr to void.  This causes the shared_ptr constructor that does not support enabled_shared_from_this to be called.  I think that this is because the constructor is called from a place (shared_ptr_helper.cpp) where the class derived from enable_shared_from_this is not complete.

I was able to work around the problem by moving the construction of the shared_ptr back to the shared_ptr_helper::reset function template.  It would really help if this problem could be fixed.  It is likely that Alexander and I aren't the only ones that rely on this capability.

Thank you,

Carus V. (Bud) Clarke
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