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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-12-22 16:26:19


Rene Rivera <grafik.list_at_[hidden]> writes:

> John Maddock wrote:
>
>> date_time - one API (get_month_map_ptr) returns a shared_ptr, I'm pretty
>> sure that shared_ptr's internal use-count memory management will get tripped
>> up here unless caller and callee share the same runtime.
>
> I thought that the smart_ptr classes use the remote deleter concept for both
> the pointee and the count?? ...looking at code... Well it seems it doesn't use
> a deleter for the count :-( I would think that's a bug??
>

No, the virtual destructor makes it OK. Caller and callee do not
need the same runtime.

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