From: Dmytro Ovdiienko:

>class SomeClass{
>public:
>    boost::shared_ptr<SomeClass> s_this_;
>    boost::weak_ptr<SomeClass> w_this_;
>   
>   SomeClass()
>    {
>       s_this_.reset( this );
>        w_this_ = s_this_;
   
Shouldn't you be using shared_from_this()? Creating a shared_ptr from "this" doesn't work otherwise. Check out the shared_ptr docs for more info.