[C++-sig] call policies

[David Abrahams]

Stefan Seefeld <seefeld at sympatico.ca> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
> > Stefan Seefeld <seefeld at sympatico.ca> writes:
> > Stefan,
> > I think this is my fault. As you probably know, std::auto_ptr<>'s
> > copy
> > constructor is weird: it takes a non-const RHS.
> 
> indeed.
> 
> > I think I must've
> > failed to account for that. I'll look into providing a patch for this
> > case today.
> 
> Thanks a lot !

Hi Stefan,

Well, this turns out to be much stickier than I had thought; it's
going to take a bit more time than I have today. Could you settle for
shared ownership using boost::shared_ptr<>, or do you have an
underlying interface which really needs to manage ownership through
raw pointers?

-Dave

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