Re: [Boost-users] Thread Safety of shared_ptr

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Thread Safety of shared_ptr
From: Frank Mori Hess (frank.hess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-02 09:01:36

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On Monday, May 02, 2011, Peter Dimov wrote:
> >   // thread B
> >   // p2 goes out of scope: undefined, the destructor is considered a
> > 
> > "write access"
> 
> This example just says that you can't make a copy of a destroyed
> shared_ptr, or one that is in the process of being destroyed. In
> principle, it has nothing to do with reference counts. Doing something
> with a destroyed object of any type is undefined behavior in C++.

It looks like the example isn't quite right though, as p2 was declared in 
thread A so it can't go out of scope in thread B.

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