Re: [Boost-users] [boost::shared_ptr] Memory is not freed

Thank you all for the replies. Yes, this is the reason: cyclic references. Regards, Panagiotis Foteinos On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 7:05 PM, liam mail <liam.list@googlemail.com> wrote:

On 27 March 2011 23:57, Panagiotis Foteinos <pafotein@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hello users. Could you think of any scenarios that would cause the observed behaviour?

Any ideas would be welcome.

OS: Ubuntu 64 Compiler: gcc version 4.4.3

Best Regards, Panagiotis Foteinos

Sounds like cyclic references[1] for which you may need to use weak_ptr 's. [1] http://www.codeproject.com/KB/stl/boostsmartptr.aspx#Cyclic%20References

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