Re: [boost] Publishing results

From: Greg Colvin (gcolvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-05-29 10:05:05

From: md656 <md656_at_[hidden]>
> > >         The following example will fail for any smart pointer
> > > class with an inline dispatch on the internal pointer:
> > > 
> > >         class Y { smart_ptr<X> x; };
> > >         class X { smart_ptr<Y> y; };
> > > 
> > > Is there a way to turn off this non-conforming behaviour?
> > 
> > What's non-conforming about it? The above code should certainly fail.
> 
> Why should this code fail?

Because this fails too?

   class Y { X* x; };
   class X { Y* y; };