Re: [boost] [intrusive_ptr] atomic ref counting?

Eric Niebler wrote:

Peter Dimov wrote:

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Seeing so many variations of it is a pretty good indication that we need it in Boost. :-)

So you're going to add it? :-)

I can't help but think that even if I did add the above, you wouldn't use it because of the virtual destructor, and Andreas wouldn't use it because of the lack of bool NeedsLocking parameter. Anyway, ...

Tried that. Under certain circumstances, VC7.1 wasn't finding the friend functions. Hence my counted_base_access hack, and the intrusive_ptr_add_ref/release functions at namespace scope.

... I'm interested in those certain circumstances.