Re: [boost] Weak functor: Interested? (How to boost::bind to a weak_ptr)

Subject: Re: [boost] Weak functor: Interested? (How to boost::bind to a weak_ptr)
From: Stewart, Robert (Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-01-11 07:57:02

Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
>
> It can be done. In fact, it has already been done. See
> http://lists.boost.org/boost-users/2011/09/70647.php.

PMFJI, but that code looks suspect.  get_pointer() locks the weak_ptr to get a raw pointer from the related shared_ptr, but then the shared_ptr returned by lock() is allowed to go out of scope.  Thus, the ptr_adapter returned by get_pointer() holds a transiently valid raw pointer.  By the time the pointer is used to call the member function, the last shared_ptr owning the associated memory could release the memory, so the ptr_adapter will have a dangling pointer.

If ptr_adapter were to hold a shared_ptr instead of a raw pointer, then the memory could not be released out from under the ptr_adapter.  That, of course, doesn't work with get_pointer().

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