[boost] Re: Intrusive/invasive smart pointer?

From: Greg Colvin (gcolvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-01-12 21:43:14

From: Dave Abrahams <abrahams_at_[hidden]>
>
> I have already been in communication with Greg about that possibility,
> because twice colleagues of mine have made the mistake of initializing a
> smart_ptr with a raw pointer to an object which is already being counted.
> One of the engineers was senior.

I've added a set of raw pointers to my current exerimental
implementation, but for debugging only.  As we discussed,
you can't reliably tell that two pointers point at the same
object in the face of multiple inheritance.