[boost] Re: Small linked_ptr improvements

From: Dave Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-03-15 23:40:05

on 3/15/00 4:02 PM, Miki Jovanovic at miki_at_[hidden] wrote:

> 1) dynamic_cast_from might behave little better is written as below.
> What I did not like with the previous version was that if the contained
> object destructor threw an exception, the value of the smart pointer
> would have beed NULL. Version below would actually do the assignment
> correctly, even if the exception was thrown. Also, I there should be a
> small performance improvement.

If our smart pointers do not require that the objects they refer to _not_
throw exceptions from their destructors, they should. All the same, if
nothing is being sacrificed to get this "improvement", there is no harm in
it.

-Dave