[Boost-users] smart_ptr/enable_shared_from_raw

Subject: [Boost-users] smart_ptr/enable_shared_from_raw
From: Andreas Beisler (ebfx_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-11-09 12:17:52

Hi,

it's known that calling shared_from_this() in a constructor doesn't 
work. It seems that whenever this issue arises, people resort to 
creating a factory that first constructs the object and then calls an 
init function in which the user is free to call shared_from_this().

It seems though that there is a perfectly working enable_shared_from_raw 
class in the trunk since a couple of years now that allows the developer 
to call shared_from_raw(this) in a constructor.

Are there plans of merging this into a release sometime? If not, is it 
safe to throw out the smart_ptr stuff of a release (I'm using 1.48.0 
still) and replace it with the version from the trunk?

Thanks,
Andreas