Re: shared_ptr and real world (explicitly loaded DLLs)
On 14 Sep., 23:26, Vyacheslav Lanovets <xent...@gmail.com> wrote:
But I want to complain that boost::shared_ptr<> has tricky internals
to provide suport for user-defined delete policies. And these tricks
are based on virtual calls what just crashes our application.
I'd like you to think: do we really need these cool features of
shared_ptr<> or we need simple bullet-proof _standard_ ref-counted
smart pointer?
1) The current standard draft already proposes to add std::shared_ptr
which has basically the same interface (and a compatible semantic) to
boost::shared_ptr (but the wording does not mandate the above
described implementation technique). Since the current boost
implementation would not violate the proposed interface, this would
be a possible implementation provided by your favourite vendor.
If this happens you can complain at your vendor, not at boost - so
what would be the difference for you?
2) What we really need are standardized dynamic libraries, see
e.g.
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2407.html
Greetings from Bremen,
Daniel Kr?gler
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