Re: [boost] shared_ptr bug?

From: Fisher; Damien Kaine (dfisher_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-18 01:07:56

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Greg Colvin wrote:

> class foo {
>    public:
>       foo(): m_self(this) { std::cout << "foo constructor\n"; }
>       ~foo() { std::cout << "foo destructor\n"; }
>       void suicide() { m_self.reset(0); }
>    private:
>       boost::shared_ptr<foo> m_self;
> };

Is m_self(this) legal?  You are passing in a pointer to an object which
has not yet been fully constructed.  I am too sure whether that is
appropriate or not, even though boost::shared_ptr doesn't really "use" the
pointer.