Re: [Boost-users] How to create a smart pointer for a non-growable, size determined by run-time array

From: Stuart Dootson (stuart.dootson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-12 03:37:57

On 1/12/06, me22 <me22.ca_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 11/01/06, Stuart Dootson <stuart.dootson_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > std::auto_ptr - no dependency on Boost - but the assignment semantics
> > can be confusing at first - personally, I'd not use this.
> >
>
> I'd just like to point out that std::auto_ptr calls delete, not
> delete[], on the pointer it wons, so it cannot be used with new[]ed
> arrays.
>

Quite right - noticed just after I pressed the Send button - I'll use
the defence that I never use std::auto_ptr :-)

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>
> - Scott
>

Stuart