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Boost refcounted smartpointer?

Started by Toolmaker Feb 18, 2005 at 3:06 PM 2 replies 450+ views

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Feb 18, 2005 at 3:06 PM

I'm currently using my self-rolled smartpointer class, and I wanna take a look at using a boost smart pointer, so I'm 100% sure I'm no longer have problems. I have alot of memory leaks, which I assume are because of STL(I use MMGR). I tried to work myself out of this, but at this point, I'm no longer sure of my smartpointer class. Which smartpointer class do I need to use in boost, if I want to be able to pass the pointer around, assign multiple instances and have it ref counted? Toolmaker

Evil Steve

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Evil Steve

Feb 18, 2005 at 3:15 PM

First hit on Google gives this page. intrusive_ptr seems to be what you want:

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Shared ownership of objects with an embedded reference count.

snk_kid

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snk_kid

Feb 18, 2005 at 3:17 PM

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Original post by Toolmaker
Which smartpointer class do I need to use in boost, if I want to be able to pass the pointer around, assign multiple instances and have it ref counted?

shared_ptr/array are reference counted, intrusive_ptr are for objects that already have an embedded reference count (like COM objects) and you can hook it upto automatically de/increment the count and release.

Toolmaker

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Toolmaker

Feb 18, 2005 at 3:39 PM

Thus, I need to use shared_ptr. Thanks snk_kid!

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