Re: [boost] Shared pointers and pointers to members issue (with fix)

From: Davide Bolcioni (davide_bolcioni_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-04 04:00:47

Greetings,

On Sunday 04 March 2007 02:40:20 Braddock Gaskill wrote:
> A nice discussion of the aliasing concept can be found in the paper
> "Improving Usability and Performance of TR1 Smart Pointers, N1851" by
> Kliatchko and Rocha.  It can be found at:
>
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1851.pdf
>
> I believe this is the proposed aliasing extension to TR1 smart_ptr that
> was mentioned earlier.

Reading n1851, a thought comes to mind: maybe TR1/Boost should change 
shared_ptr to accept an optional *allocator* instead of an optional *deleter* 
and fold the deleter case into the concept of allocator ?

Just my $0.02,
Davide Bolcioni
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