Re: shared_ptr in priority_queue: how to make it work

From:
"johnchx2@yahoo.com" <johnchx2@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
6 Jun 2006 18:03:29 -0400
Message-ID:
<1149613762.673077.190230@c74g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
zl2k wrote:

int main(){
         priority_queue<shared_ptr<myClass> > pq;
         shared_ptr<myClass> temp(new myClass(1));
         pq.push(temp);
         temp.reset(new myClass(2));
         pq.push(temp);
         temp.reset(new myClass(3));
         pq.push(temp);
         while (!pq.empty()){
                 temp = pq.top();
                 cout<<temp->a<<endl;
                 pq.pop();
         }
}

----------------------------------------------------//over

I was expecting the priority_queue to pop 1 first and 3 last. However,
it pops 3 first and 1 last. (If I input 3,2,1 in a sequence, then the
output will be 1,2,3. So it seems that there is no sorting at all)


The problem is that the priority_queue is using the comparison operator
for shared_ptr to order its contents, not the comparison operator for
myClass.

You'll need to instantiate priority_queue with a custom comparison type
(the third parameter in the priorty_queue template) which dereferences
the shared_ptrs to compare the pointed-to objects.

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