Subject: Re: [boost] make_shared and allocate_shared for classes with private constructors
From: Michael Marcin (mike.marcin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-04 17:13:10
Michael Marcin wrote:
> I have some classes that derive from enable_shared_from_this which I've
> given private constructors and static creation methods which return a
> shared_ptr. This prevents someone from using the class inappropriately.
> It seems obvious that at a minimum using make_shared internally here
> would be an improvement. Unfortunately this requires that make_shared be
> made a friend for every arity and probably won't work with the variadic
> template implementation of make_shared.
>
> Is it possible to make declaring friendship for make_shared and
> allocate_shared simpler? I thinking something like serialization does
> with friend class boost::serialization::access.
>
ping
-- Michael Marcin