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From: juergen@monocerus.demon.co.uk (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: removing list elements
Date: 1999/03/18
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In article <7cj8nk$tmk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, alexxandra@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
>This problem has been described to me by a fellow developer, and I cannot find
>much insight online or in books.  Using the STL list, we wanted to substitute
>our home-grown implementation of a linked list.  However, we were storing
>(pointers or references to) objects in the linked list and we've run into a
>problem with the code dumping core from the stl section.  Should I assume it
>is the developer's responsibility to remove the object when objects and not
>straight data are being stored in the list?  If so, would a reasonable
>solution be to overload list's remove() to call the destructor on the object
>being removed?
>
>Any insight/input/advice is very welcome.

Just an idea ... do you have a copy constructor and if ... shallow or deep
copy ? For pointers you might consider smart pointers and regarding the STL
containers AFAIK objects must support = and <

Cheers,
Juergen

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