[C++-sig] eposing classes with protected destructors

[David Abrahams]

"Daniel Paull" <dlp at fractaltechnologies.com> writes:

> BTW, I also added a template function to get my source to compile:
>
> namespace boost { 
> template<class T> T * get_pointer( RefCountedObject<T> const& p )
> {
>     return p.get();
> }
> }
>
> This should help anyone trying to reproduce the problem.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Daniel Paull

Daniel,

Unless your compiler doesn't support partial specialization, this
function template should be in the same namespace as RefCountedObject
so it can be found via argument-dependent lookup.

-Dave

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