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Subject: Re: [boost] [smart_ptr] Interest in the missing smart pointer (that can target the stack)
From: Michael Marcin (mike.marcin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-01-28 22:57:28


On 1/28/2016 8:09 PM, Emil Dotchevski wrote:
>> And it's way too easy to break that guarantee because it's not the
>> semantics that shared_ptr was designed for.
>>
>
> {
> foo local;
> shared_ptr<foo> pl(&local,null_deleter());
> ....
> do_something(p);
> ....
> assert(pl.unique());
> }
>
> Yes, in the presence of exceptions one must also assert(pl.unique()) in a
> catch(...), and yes, compile-time errors are better than run-time errors,
> but I wouldn't sacrifice the availability of weak_ptr and the capacity of
> shared_ptr to act as THE single smart pointer framework in a program.
>

Why on earth would you ever do this?
There is no shared ownership semantics here at all.

I'm going to assume that is supposed to read do_something(pl);
do_something can't retain ownership of the shared_ptr without the
processor melting so why give it a shared_ptr at all?


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