Re: [boost] [smart_ptr] Proposal to add new_shared function

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-12 15:21:09

Frank Mori Hess wrote:
> On Monday 12 May 2008 10:20 am, Andrey Semashev wrote:
>> Hi,
> 
>> I've seen this topic floating around but it seems it didn't make it into
>> boost for some reason. I propose to add a new helper function for
>> shared_ptr, namely new_shared. The function would dynamically allocate
>> an object and return shared_ptr that points to it. The function provides
>> the following benefits:
> 
> make_shared and allocate_shared were added to boost svn recently 
> (boost/make_shared.hpp) based on n2351.  They don't support custom destroyers 
> though, like your implementation does.

Wow, I missed that. Thanks for the pointer.