Re: [boost] [smart_ptr] make_shared usage

From: Daniel Wallin (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-28 11:49:42

Daniel Frey wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 18:25 +0300, Peter Dimov wrote:
>> You should be able to make it work by making the appropriate make_shared 
>> overload a friend:
>>
>>  template< class T, class A1, class A2 >
>>  friend
>>  boost::shared_ptr< T > boost::make_shared( A1 const & a1, A2 const & a2 );
> 
> Good idea, thanks. It would also render create() useless, since the user
> could call make_shared directly. Sadly, it doesn't work for me. I've
> tried it with GCC 4.3:
[...]
> Is this a bug in GCC's implementation of make_shared and I should file a
> bug report for it? Is it intended to standardize that the above code
> should work?

It's not a bug. The draft standard says nothing about where the instance
will be created. I would expect most implementations to do it in some
private auxiliary function.

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