Re: [boost] [smart ptr] Any interest in copy-on-write pointer for C++11?

Subject: Re: [boost] [smart ptr] Any interest in copy-on-write pointer for C++11?
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-02-08 12:05:19

On 08/02/13 17:50, Ralph Tandetzky wrote:
> It is as thread-safe as necessary. The reference counter is atomic. It's
> all well documented on github
> <https://github.com/ralphtandetzky/cow_ptr>. You can find all the
> thread-safety guarantees there. Thread-safety is documented at the
> bottom of the long comment preceeding the cow_ptr class.

This code is actually C++11 and incompatible with C++03.
It is quite strange that you chose to implement a COW facility in the 
only dialect of the language that never needs it.