Re: shared_ptr in priority_queue: how to make it work

From:
Carl Barron <cbarron413@adelphia.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
8 Jun 2006 06:31:17 -0400
Message-ID:
<060620061527278922%cbarron413@adelphia.net>
In article <1149568697.405352.94530@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, zl2k
<kdsfinger@gmail.com> 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();
         }
}


you need a less than compare function that compares the pointed to
values of the shared_ptrs. that is
    struct pointed_to_less
    {
       bool operator () (const shared_ptr<MyClass> &a,const
shared_ptr<MyClass> &b) const
       { return *a < *b;}
    };

int main()
{
    priority_queue<shared_ptr<MyClass>,pointed_to_less> pq;
    // etc.

}

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