Re: [Boost-users] Safe to pass dereferenced anonymous shared_ptr?

I have just one comment. I would recommend returning a unique_ptr instead of a shared_ptr, as you can then use the object as a unique_ptr, be move it into a shared_ptr, or adopt it by other means elsewhere in your data structures. Returning a shared_ptr locks you into keeping the data as a shared_ptr. Best Regards, M. Scott Mueller

On Nov 5, 2013, at 7:56 PM, "Chris Stankevitz" wrote:

Kris, Scott, Edward,

Thank you for your replies regarding the safe use of the anonymous shared_ptrs.

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Kris: FYI my more complex use-case looks like this:

class TCImage { public:

// Default constructs a black image TCImage(unsigned Width, unsigned Height); };

boost::shared_ptr<const std::string> GetJpegBytes(const TCImage& Image);

GetJpegBytes generates JPEG bytes for an image and returns them as a shared_ptr. The shared_ptr is helpful because these JPEG bytes are passed around throughout my system.