Re: [boost] storing intrusive_ptr in atomic?!

Oliver Kowalke wrote:

yes, I could use atomic but the other code tracks T* in intrusive_ptr< T > and it looks a little bit awkward if I release a raw-ponter from a smart-pointer in order to store it in a container.

You're already doing manual addref/release on the pointer in the container, so it's logically treated as a raw pointer. Even if you could store an intrusive_ptr there, its additional addref/release would be wasted. The rest of the code never sees the raw pointer; the functions that store and retrieve from the container take/return intrusive_ptr.