David Abrahams wrote:
Can you deal with deallocation of the whole network at once? It often works to maintain the nodes (C objects) in a container like a deque and let them link to one another with raw pointers.
Otherwise you may be in need of a real GC.
I solved the problem in a (probably) not too elegant way: when I know that I'm creating objects with mutual dependences say A and B I store weak pointers, and I store a shared pointer to A and B into a list. As long as the list survives the weak pointers are still valid. When I want to deallocate everything, all I have to do is to deallocate the list. This worked, and also valgrind says there are no leaks... Lorenzo -- +-----------------------------------------------------+ | Lorenzo Bettini ICQ# lbetto, 16080134 | | PhD in Computer Science | | Dip. Sistemi e Informatica, Univ. di Firenze | | Florence - Italy (GNU/Linux User # 158233) | | Home Page : http://www.lorenzobettini.it | | http://music.dsi.unifi.it XKlaim language | | http://www.lorenzobettini.it/purple Cover Band | | http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite | | http://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt | | http://www.lorenzobettini.it/software/gengen | | http://www.lorenzobettini.it/software/doublecpp | +-----------------------------------------------------+