Re: shared_ptr cycles
"Christopher" <cpisz@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
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I am not sure I understand this. I am need to before I get myself in
trouble!
"Because the implementation uses reference counting, cycles of
shared_ptr instances will not be reclaimed. For example, if main()
holds a shared_ptr to A, which directly or indirectly holds a
shared_ptr back to A, A's use count will be 2. Destruction of the
original shared_ptr will leave A dangling with a use count of 1. Use
weak_ptr to "break cycles." "
How would a shared pointer to A, directly or indirectly hold a shared
pointer back to A?
Shared pointers hold regular pointers as far as I know?
This is the only situation I can come up with, which I would more
easily describe as "If any shared pointer that already contains a raw
pointer B, is assigned to a shared pointer that already contains B,
the reference count is incremented and will not be decremented back to
zero, when those shared pointers are destroyed" I am not even sure if
that would happen, because ...isn't the reference count decremented
when a shared pointer is assigned?
int main()
{
boost::shared_ptr<MyClass> ptr1 = new MyClass();
boost::shared_ptr<MyClass> ptr2 = ptr1; // increment ref count
to 2
ptr1 = ptr2; // decrement ref count for assignment and then
increment?
// what's the ref count? Is this what they are describing as a
"cycle"?
return 0;
}
[...]
That's not an example of a cycle; try something like this:
<quick and dirty pseudo-code>
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struct foo {
boost::shared_ptr<foo> m_cycle;
};
int main() {
{
boost::shared_ptr<foo> p(new foo);
p->m_cycle = p;
}
// the `foo' object created above is now leaked!
return 0;
}
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