On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Frank Mori Hess <frank.hess@nist.gov> wrote:

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On Monday, May 02, 2011, Peter Dimov wrote:
> >   // thread B
> >   // p2 goes out of scope: undefined, the destructor is considered a
> >
> > "write access"
>
> This example just says that you can't make a copy of a destroyed
> shared_ptr, or one that is in the process of being destroyed. In
> principle, it has nothing to do with reference counts. Doing something
> with a destroyed object of any type is undefined behavior in C++.

It looks like the example isn't quite right though, as p2 was declared in
thread A so it can't go out of scope in thread B.

It still can happen if p2 is a weak_ptr in thread "A" and the corresponding shared_ptr  goes out of scope in thread "B".

Best Regards,

Ovanes