Re: [Boost-users] delete shared_ptr object???

Dan Bikel wrote:

Rather disturbingly, the following code compiles (at least, with g++-3.3.2): #include "boost/shared_ptr.hpp" using namespace boost; class X {}; int main() { const shared_ptr<X> y; delete y; }

Normally, when you compile code with delete applied to a non-pointer type, you get a compile-time error. What's going on here?

Seems like a g++ specific "feature". g++ allows delete on a member pointer for some reason. You should probably file a bug report against g++ 3.3. And I should probably add this test case to the regression tests. ;-)