[boost] Re: Libraries requested or under construction

From: Reid Sweatman (reids_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-07-27 16:12:15

Well, it's probably a dumb suggestion, but you could write quickie templates
to wrap the target class's CTOR and DTOR, and include your hooks in the
wrapper.  There's probably a reason why that won't work, but I'm too short
on time right now to think much <g>.  I envy you that class reunion.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Glew [mailto:glew_at_[hidden]]
> Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 7:44 PM
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: [boost] Re: Libraries requested or under construction
> 
> 
> >The sort of pointers you're asking for are exactly the kind 
> I was looking
> >for when I came here in the first place.  That suggestion I 
> just posted
> >about directed graph templates was the source for the 
> request; I want to
> >have dynamic FSM's, and that would require just the kind of 
> ownership and
> >destruction semantics you describe.
> 
> 
> Well, what usually happens happened:
> 
> I get ashamed / annoyed.
> 
> So, this weekend I hacked up a quick version on my laptop
> while at a campground for my wife's highschool class reunion.
> 
> Give me a chance to download it and clean it up a bit,
> and I'll pass it on to you; I'll then read the BOOST code standards,
> and see about cleaning it up for submission.
> 
> I'm especially motivated - I need live_ptrs in the project I 
> should have finished
> last week.
> 
> ---
> 
> Before BOOSTing them, I'd like to find a non-intrusive way of 
> doing this. 
> I can do it standardly in Borland C++ --- the only C++ 
> manuals I had this weekend.
> 
> There may be some sort of pre and post destructor hook.
> 
> But I think that this shows a more important issue: there is 
> no portable way
> of wrapperizing functions that do not have hooks planted a priori.
> 
> I.e. what I want to do is take an arbitrary existing library 
> function foo(),
> write my own library function foo() that intercepts all 
> existing calls to foo(),
> which typically does some work, and then may optionally call 
> the original
> function foo().
> 
> 
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