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From: Arun Dharankar (ADharankar_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-04 22:19:56
Hello,
The type of shared pointer I have in mind is boost::shared_ptr. Is there
some way I can extend/modify (short of re-writing) cleanly its functionality
such that when its reference counter becomes zero, a method in the
actual pointer's class is called instead of that class's destructor
being called?
Consider the following snippet to allow me to explain:
class A {
public:
A() { }
~A() { }
void deleteA() { }
};
boost::shared_ptr<A> a(new A);
a.reset();
In this example, when a.reset() is called A's I want the deleteA() method to
be called instead of the destructor for A. It would then be up to
deleteA() to
decide if/when to cause the delete of the real object.
Best regards,
-Arun.