Re: Access to operator delete of a private nested class

From:
Vyacheslav Lanovets <xentrax@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Sun, 8 Jun 2008 08:34:21 CST
Message-ID:
<e86351e7-bde7-471b-a640-6ee5cee84046@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
On May 31, 9:28 am, Alberto Ganesh Barbati <AlbertoBarb...@libero.it>
wrote:

They aren't. And even if they were, you don't need to know much of the
shared_ptr<> internals to provide a custom deleter. Consider this:


Unfortunately, in our application we heavily use explicit loading and
unloading of modules (DLLs) and this is not compatible with C++
virtual template mebers (and virtual inline functions) as vtbl gets
initialized with addresses inside a module which is then unloaded
(boom!). We use our own shared_ptr<> with removed support of deleters
and with no virtual functions inside.
This means that we are in control of a name of template function which
specialization should be declared a friend of an outer class A to
workaround the problem in MS VC.

I kindly ask everybody who beleives that the code below should compile
to vote for it here:
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=349189

#include <cstdlib>
#include <memory>
class A
{
private:
class B
{
public:
void test()
{
std::tr1::shared_ptr<B>(new B());
}
~B()
{
}
void* operator new(size_t size)
{
return std::malloc(size);
}
void operator delete(void* p, size_t /*size*/)
{
std::free(p);
}
};
};

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