Re: home made handle

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 9 Apr 2007 16:11:49 -0400
Message-ID:
<eve6m6$od7$1@news.datemas.de>
Christopher Pisz wrote:

How would you go about giving some unique identifier back to a user,
that they can use to make calls to your module with, that is
associated with a pointer to an object in your multithreaded module?


There are many different ways. A pointer to the object is one.

I thought about something like

typedef ModuleObject * ID;


Sure. That's the simplest way, AFAICT.

where ModuleObject is a class in my multithreaded module.
objects of the ModuleObject type frequently get allocated and
released from memory.
and I have a private list of ModuleObject pointers in my module.


I don't think this is relevant.

, but I don't really want them to have access to the methods of the
object since it is multithreaded and more importantly, they have no
business calling methods directly, but should be calling the
functions in the module.


Make your 'ID' a void pointer instead.

V
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