Re: [Boost-users] [SmartPtr] local_weak_ptr?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [SmartPtr] local_weak_ptr?
From: Rob Conde (rob.conde_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-12-11 00:30:27

Thanks Gavin,
I was thinking of that...but then again I don’t see the weak_ptr aspect having anything to do with threading per-se, so it seems strange to have to “enter the threaded world” in order to use weak_ptr with local_shared_ptr. Of course, a patch would be pretty straightforward I think, but it would be useful to know the motivation of the current state of things before bothering.

Rob

> On Dec 10, 2017, at 5:10 PM, Gavin Lambert via Boost-users <boost-users_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/12/2017 04:19, Rob Conde wrote:
>> How are boost::local_shared_ptr and boost::weak_ptr intended to be used together? I expected a local_weak_ptr, but it's not there so I'm wondering how you would (correctly) use local_shared_ptr and weak_ptr, or if you need local_weak_ptr and this is just still on the TODO list?
> 
> You can construct a shared_ptr from a local_shared_ptr and then construct a weak_ptr from that.
> 
> Since local_shared_ptr isn't threadsafe, I *think* the intended use is to keep shared_ptr/weak_ptr in data structures that might be shared between threads, and copy to local_shared_ptr instances for purely thread-local data structures, in that order.  But that's just an inference; I don't have any direct knowledge of the motivation.
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