Re: [boost] make_shared and allocate_shared for classes with private constructors

Subject: Re: [boost] make_shared and allocate_shared for classes with private constructors
From: Michael Marcin (mike.marcin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-04 17:13:10

Michael Marcin wrote:
> I have some classes that derive from enable_shared_from_this which I've 
> given private constructors and static creation methods which return a 
> shared_ptr. This prevents someone from using the class inappropriately. 
> It seems obvious that at a minimum using make_shared internally here 
> would be an improvement. Unfortunately this requires that make_shared be 
>  made a friend for every arity and probably won't work with the variadic 
> template implementation of make_shared.
> 
> Is it possible to make declaring friendship for make_shared and 
> allocate_shared simpler? I thinking something like serialization does 
> with friend class boost::serialization::access.
> 

ping

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Michael Marcin