Re: [boost] Shared_ptr "mini garbage collector"

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-07 17:30:19

"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Currently I use a conservative scan that assumes that shared_ptr instances
> have a layout of
>
> T * px;
> counted_base * pi;
> int id;

It's easy enough to enforce that by inheriting from a POD
struct. Don't know about the next part, though:

> with pointers being aligned on a DWORD boundary. 

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