Re: [Boost-users] [signals] Automatic connection management and MT

From: Frank Mori Hess (frank.hess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-06 16:10:47

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On Tuesday 06 February 2007 15:43 pm, Timmo Stange wrote:
> Frank Mori Hess wrote:
> > I've made some minor changes to shared_ptr.hpp and
> > enable_shared_from_this.hpp as a proof of concept (diffs against boost
> > 1.32 attached).  It appears to work beautifully.  The "real thing"
> > would also take steps to make sure the postconstructor only gets
> > called once (maybe in a "postconstructible" class derived from
> > enable_shared_from_this.  And the virtual function that is called in
> > enable_shared_from_this might want a less specific name than
> > postconstruct.
> >
> > Peter, is there any chance a change like this could get put in
> > shared_ptr?
>
> I don't think adding polymorphism to something as widely used as
> enable_shared_from_this is an option. 

Maybe the equivalent can be done using only with templates without 
polymorphism, I'll see if I can make that work.

- -- 
Frank
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