Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] [Boost-users] delete shared_ptr object???

From: pps (i-love-spam_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-28 20:48:15

Dan Bikel wrote:
> Rather disturbingly, the following code compiles (at least, with 
> g++-3.3.2):
> 
>   #include "boost/shared_ptr.hpp"
>   using namespace boost;
>   class X {};
>   int main() {
>     const shared_ptr<X> y;
>     delete y;
>   }
> 
> Normally, when you compile code with delete applied to a non-pointer 
> type, you get a compile-time error.  What's going on here?

try this:

struct X {
        operator X*(){ return this; }
        void operator delete (void *p){}
};
int main(int, char*[]) {
        X x;
        delete x;
}

> 
> TIA,
> Dan.
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