Re: [boost] out_ptr -- alternatives

28 Jun 2019


      On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 1:08 PM degski  wrote:
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On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 11:38, Andrey Semashev via Boost  wrote:
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Most C-style APIs follow the new/delete
pattern, where you have a function that allocates and initializes a
structure, returning a pointer to it, and another one to free it, along
with any associated resources.
Doesn't sound like overkill to me, now I have no dependency and I can add details at will [without reading any docs].
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Using a smart pointer to store a pointer
to that structure is perfectly valid, and the easiest and most natural
thing to do.
Right, most natural since C++11 that is then.
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And using a smart pointer to
manage that resource is perfectly adequate.
It's the "if-I-have-a-hammer-everything-looks-like-a-nail-syndrom".
Maybe, but I'm definitely not looking forward wrapping something like
AVCodecContext in a custom RAII wrapper, when I can just use
unique_ptr with a deleter.