Re: [Boost-users] shared_ptr usage

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] shared_ptr usage
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-06 16:49:47

AMDG

Hicham Mouline wrote:
> I have a class that stores a private member a shared_ptr<T> that points to a
> dynamically allocated instance of T.
>
> A getter member function returns T&.
>
>  
>
> I now realise that in a snippet, I would like to store a new shared_ptr<T>
> to that returned object.
>
>      T& t = myinstance.getT();
>
> I would like to store t in a shared_ptr, ie increment the count of shared
> pointers
>
> Do I do:
>
>     shared_ptr<T> desiredPointer( &t  );
>
>  
>
> will this increment the count of shared pointers to t?
>   

You have to use enable_shared_from_this
http://www.boost.org/libs/smart_ptr/enable_shared_from_this.html

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe