Re: [boost] Shared pointers and pointers to members issue (with fix)

1 Mar 2007


      Michael Anderson wrote:
...
Howdy everyone.
I have some code that uses pointers to member variables that I want to 
switch to using boost::shared_ptrs, some of the code looks like this.
class Bar {};
class Foo
{
 public:
    Bar bar;
};
...
Foo * fooptr = new Foo;
Bar * barptr = &Foo.bar;
...
So to make this work with shared_ptrs I can do this:
class Bar {}
class Foo
{
  public:
   Foo() : bar(new Bar) {}
   shared_ptr<Bar> bar;
};
...
<snip>
Pardon my ignorance but why not just use scoped_ptr<Bar>?

- Michael Marcin