Re: naked pointer vs boost::shared_ptr<T>

From:

"James Kanze" <james.kanze@gmail.com>

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Date:

Thu, 8 Mar 2007 05:54:24 CST

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On Mar 7, 11:39 pm, "Dejan.Mircev...@gmail.com"
<Dejan.Mircev...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mar 6, 5:15 am, "James Kanze" <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:

Surely you have 1 to n relationships
in your software. How do you manage those? I generally use an
std::set< T* >

OK, this is where I'll agree with you: raw pointers are a suitable
solution when you need an assignable reference to externally owned
memory that may be non-dynamic.

In my case, it must be dynamic, since the lifetime of the
objects pointed to depends on external events. The non-dynamic
is irrelevant.

[...]

Also, I believe this is orthogonal to the question of arbitrary
lifespans.

If the lifespan isn't arbitrary, why allocate the object
dynamically?

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