Re: [Boost-users] [Serialization, Signals?] Memory leaks while deserializing derived type

From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-25 19:47:55

AMDG

Brad Anderson wrote:
> I am curious, though, about why the leaks only happened in when I 
> deserialized and not in any of the other instances I created myself.  
> Does shared_ptr perform some kind of trickery to detect the type to 
> delete through, even when the shared_ptr is typed for the base class?

Yes.  A shared_ptr captures the type to delete through when it is 
constructed.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe