Re: [boost] [shifted_ptr] Now supports <void>, multithread roots & preprocessor code

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-28 09:44:25

on Fri Mar 28 2008, "Phil Bouchard" <philippe-AT-fornux.com> wrote:

> Ok, this a nice feature that just got added to the pointer.  I just added 
> support for "void" pointers and works perfectly.  We can see the object 
> being deleted correctly after the shifted_ptr<void> is destructed.
>
> Furthermore a very nice property shifted_ptr_base has is that it can be 
> casted to a regular pointer and back again to a shifted_ptr_base and the 
> pointee will still be correctly deallocated.  I never saw any production 
> code using perfect C++ coding and sometimes it happens we rely on "working 
> undefined behaviors".
>
> Multithreaded support has been added but unfortunately I didn't see any 
> function returning the current thread id.  Was this disregarded?
>
> Finally I am using cleaner preprocessor coding for variadic function 
> templates:
> http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=shifted_ptr.zip&directory=Memory&

Is there a documentation page somewhere?

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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