Re: [Boost-users] delete shared_ptr object???

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-29 06:17:55

Dan Bikel wrote:
> Rather disturbingly, the following code compiles (at least, with
> g++-3.3.2):
>   #include "boost/shared_ptr.hpp"
>   using namespace boost;
>   class X {};
>   int main() {
>     const shared_ptr<X> y;
>     delete y;
>   }
>
> Normally, when you compile code with delete applied to a non-pointer
> type, you get a compile-time error.  What's going on here?

Seems like a g++ specific "feature". g++ allows delete on a member pointer 
for some reason. You should probably file a bug report against g++ 3.3. And 
I should probably add this test case to the regression tests. ;-)