Re: [boost] [shifted_ptr][3.0] Important bugs fixes

From: Phil Bouchard (philippe_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-30 12:20:13

"Steven Watanabe" <watanabesj_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:48178BBA.3050100_at_providere-consulting.com...

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> I'm thinking that the cleanest solution will be to have set deletion
> split the
> cleanup into first calling all the objects' destructors and then freeing 
> all
> the memory.  When the objects are destroyed you should increment the
> reference count to make sure that the objects are not destroyed again.
> When you actually release the memory you can then verify that the 
> reference
> count is 1, and thus that all references to the object come from within
> the set.
>
> Otherwise, looking at your current implementation, it looks like
> shifted_ptr's
> on the heap will never clean up the object pointed to until the set goes
> away.

That's funny because actually I forgot adding a U<T>::reset() statement 
before set::release() inside shifted_ptr::release() in the code I submitted 
yesterday.  I wanted to change it quickly but not on time.

Now the first element in the set being deleted is the one pointed to by po_;

-Phil