Re: [Boost-users] [shared_ptr] Problem refeering back to a parent class.

Eoin wrote:

But I get a boost::bad_weak_ptr error. Now if I use regular pointers instead of weak_ptr's I can get stuff working except that when I use "bar_(this)" in the initialization list for foo MSVC 7.1 gives me a warning, which I don't like. Is there a more appropriate method I should be using to accomplish this.

Just use a regular pointer. As the bar object is a subobject of foo, it is guaranteed to be destructed first, meaning that the pointer can never be invalid in the lifetime of bar. Sebastian Redl