From -8498915889269230012 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,480a31feed3c6a1b X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.vmunix.org!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull From: petebecker@acm.org (Pete Becker) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: boost::shared_ptr revisited again Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 17:25:53 GMT Organization: Dinkumware, Ltd Lines: 21 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: <27WdncUItv4RcwDfRVn-oQ@rcn.net> References: <4299DE64.40403@poczta.onet.pl> <3g55jqFajuhcU1@news.dfncis.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1117646764 10116 158.152.254.254 (1 Jun 2005 17:26:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 17:26:04 +0000 (UTC) X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.net X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id j51HPrfF003825; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 03:25:53 +1000 (EST) X-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:21:16 -0500 X-TN-Interface: 209.99.127.20 X-Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 X-Authentication-Warning: serv1.gc.dca.giganews.com: news set sender to poster@giganews.com using -f X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:4946 John Nagle wrote: > > Well, yes. After a decade of failure, it's clear that > reference counted pointers cannot be implemented safely in > C++ via the template mechanism. The sordid history of > auto_ptr, which, after three major revisions, still has > holes, demonstrates this. std::auto_ptr is not a reference counted pointer. -- Pete Becker Dinkumware, Ltd. (http://www.dinkumware.com) --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]