Re: shared_ptr in priority_queue: how to make it work
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.
[ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ]
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