Re: [Boost-users] (Serialization) Serialization forenable_shared_from_this

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] (Serialization) Serialization forenable_shared_from_this
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-02-23 12:26:49

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Robert Ramey

Clarke, Carus V wrote:
> Alexander Gutenev wrote a message concerning this problem on Dec. 14,
> and I have a similar problem, also with Boost 1.41 and 1.42.  After
> spending some time looking at this, the problem seems to be caused by
> creating the shared_ptr as a shared_ptr to void.  This causes the
> shared_ptr constructor that does not support enabled_shared_from_this
> to be called.  I think that this is because the constructor is called
> from a place (shared_ptr_helper.cpp) where the class derived from
> enable_shared_from_this is not complete.
>
> I was able to work around the problem by moving the construction of
> the shared_ptr back to the shared_ptr_helper::reset function
> template.  It would really help if this problem could be fixed.  It
> is likely that Alexander and I aren't the only ones that rely on this
> capability.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Carus V. (Bud) Clarke
> carus.v.clarke_at_[hidden]