Re: Passing Smart Pointers as Parameters
"Stefan Weber" <stefan.weber@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Prefer to store smart pointers in the list instead, such as CComPtr.
Then all interface pointers will be released automatically by
CComPtr's destructor.
Hmm, so the list destructor calls the destructors of its elements?
Yes it does.
Seems somehow strange! For example, if I have a reference/pointer to
the list items somewhere else, I get dangling references/pointers,
right? Seems dangerous!?
"Doctor, it's painful when I do this" - "So don't do that".
Consider:
class SomeClass {...};
SomeClass* array = new SomeClass[10];
SomeClass* p = &array[5];
delete[] array;
Do you really believe p remains valid after such a sequence? I hope you
don't. Then why should list behave differently? How do you expect a
pointer into the container to outlive the container itself?
--
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