Dave Abrahams wrote:
You might look at the policy-based smart_ptr implementation in the Boost sandbox. Maybe you could devise an appropriate policy for holding your "small pointer".
I grabbed the hourly release from boost-consulting (boost-04-02-11-2300), but was unable to find any mention of policy-based pointers in any of boost-04-02-11-2300/boost/*_ptr.hpp the only difference b/w the shared_ptr.hpp provided in that release and my copy (boost 1_30) was some use of: shared_ptr_traits<T>::reference I guess I could specialize ,---------------- | template<MyClass> struct shared_ptr_traits | { | typedef --some-reference-type-- reference; | }; `---------------- But this wouldn't apply at all to the pointer type, the member data for shared_ptr is still: (note 'T *') ,---------------- | T * px; // contained pointer | detail::shared_count pn; // reference counter `---------------- Should I be looking on a branch (not a boost-consulting hourly release)? thanks, TJ -- Trey Jackson tjackson@ichips.intel.com The world's longest escalator is in Hong Kong, and measures 2625 feet. -- random factoid