On 9/12/2017 04:19, Rob Conde wrote:
How are boost::local_shared_ptr and boost::weak_ptr intended to be used together? I expected a local_weak_ptr, but it's not there so I'm wondering how you would (correctly) use local_shared_ptr and weak_ptr, or if you need local_weak_ptr and this is just still on the TODO list?
You can construct a shared_ptr from a local_shared_ptr and then construct a weak_ptr from that. Since local_shared_ptr isn't threadsafe, I *think* the intended use is to keep shared_ptr/weak_ptr in data structures that might be shared between threads, and copy to local_shared_ptr instances for purely thread-local data structures, in that order. But that's just an inference; I don't have any direct knowledge of the motivation.