Re: [Boost-users] Avoiding reinventing the wheel for a public api with binary compatibility in mind

5 Nov 2009

      On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Gottlob Frege <gottlobfrege@gmail.com> wrote:
...
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Geoff Hilton
<geoff.hilton@t-optlogic.com> wrote:
...
I'm writing a public api for a product which will be bundled as a
precompiled dll or binary and one of my goals is binary compatibility
template<typename T>
class MyClass {
public:
T foo();
private:
boost::shared_ptr<MyClassImpl<T> > impl;
};
Use boost::intrusive_ptr<> and make sure the intrusive_ptr_add_ref(T)
and intrusive_ptr_release(T) are implemented _inside_ your DLL.
That is about as stable binary interface as boost::shared_ptr.

Emil Dotchevski
Reverge Studios, Inc.
http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode