Re: shared_ptr from auto_ptr in draft
Yechezkel Mett ha scritto:
I note that the draft (n2369) has shared_ptr constructors which take
auto_ptr. Since auto_ptr has been deprecated, shouldn't these be
changed to take unique_ptr?
Even if auto_ptr has been deprecated, I don't think the constructor with
the auto_ptr should be removed. However, I agree that adding a new
constructor that takes a unique_ptr is definetely a good idea,
especially because such constructor should take the unique_ptr deleter
into consideration. For example, if u is a unique pointer, then
shared_ptr p(u);
should be equivalent to:
shared_ptr p(u.release(), u.get_deleter());
without a dedicated constructor, it would be too easy to forget the
u.get_deleter() part.
Just my opinion,
Ganesh
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