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Re: Smart Pointers 12 Years Ago by mike_2000_17 Smart pointers are not meant to point to dynamic arrays, but to …() + dwHeader, pFile); pFile += jmpSize; Think of iterators like they were pointers (but not necessarily actual… Smart Pointers 12 Years Ago by triumphost …took a dive into smart pointers and wasn't sure when I should use them vs. Raw pointers. I found out…(pFile, Buffer, dwHeader); pFile = (char*)((DWORD)pFile + jmpSize); //Smart ptr.. :S I'm confused.. std::shared_ptr<char[]>…any moment in time where I should use a Smart pointer vs. a Raw pointer (Referring to a… Smart Pointers assignment 16 Years Ago by c++_student Can anyone help me with a computer science C++ assignment that i am struggling with? The task is to design and implement a generic reference counted smart pointer class library, and use the smart pointers to create a smart generic linked list class... any help would be greatly appreciated... Thanks std::transform to delete smart pointers 17 Years Ago by sjcomp Hello, I have a vector of smart pointers and I'd like to NULL smart pointers in reverse order. Smart pointers are done with boost::shared_ptr<…;>, this is the code: [code] // List of pointers typedef… Re: Smart Pointers assignment 16 Years Ago by Alex Edwards … of the smart pointer properly deallocate memory for the pointer assigned to it (for simplicity assume all pointers are created …via new, but if needed you can force your smart pointer to accept types … method and a std::size_t size() method for your smart pointer class. I'm sure there are plenty of … Re: std::transform to delete smart pointers 17 Years Ago by twomers … &elem ) { elem.reset(); return elem; } }; int main() { // List of pointers typedef boost::shared_ptr<int> TSmart; std::vector<… Re: Pointers and Memory 14 Years Ago by L7Sqr Pointers are interesting (as you've realized). There is no way … you've no way to distinguish between them. Smart pointers can help this to a certain extent but they do … about the design of your code. Either A) decide that pointers in containers should *never* be deleted and any scope inserting… Re: reference counting with smart pointers 14 Years Ago by thekashyap None of [URL="http://www.google.com/search?q=reference+counting+with+smart+pointers"]these[/URL] helped?! Re: reference counting with smart pointers 14 Years Ago by drkybelk look at [url]www.boost.org/doc[/url] there are already good smart-pointers with ref counting. No need to do the work yourself ;-) Re: Pointers 14 Years Ago by mike_2000_17 …TR1, a much safer practice is to use smart pointers (especially the duo shared_ptr and weak_ptr). So most… is what makes them safer, but also makes (smart) pointers the only candidate for dynamic memory allocation). But now…, considering smart pointers, many people now call pointers like "char*" or "… Re: Pointers and Memory 14 Years Ago by pseudorandom21 …a smart pointer is totally superior for that. But in theory/practice you could copy an array of pointers to…... Or you could dynamically allocate and delete them. smart pointers automatically delete the dynamically allocated variable when it goes …out of scope. The standard library has a smart pointer type, it's the std::auto_ptr<>… Re: Pointers and Memory 14 Years Ago by Lord_Migit using pointers because the vector will eventually reside within a class of … within the vector. Thats all achieved a little easier with pointers. Many thanks everyone for your help, managed to sort it… bit in the process. Im still researching smart pointers but they seem more complicated than normal pointers, if such a thing is even… Re: Pointers and Memory 14 Years Ago by mrnutty Since they are raw pointers you would have to deallocate each pointer manually. If you …]m_vPopulation2 = m_vParentPop2[/i] then you should instead use smart pointers instead of raw pointers. If both of the vectors are the same size… Re: Pointers and Memory 14 Years Ago by Lord_Migit … i have no 'new' clause and u can only 'delete' pointers that have been created with 'new'. But i do have… lack thereof. On a side note, im now looking into smart pointers. Hadnt heard of them before so will try to learn… Assignment of pointers to templated class objects using different template arguments 15 Years Ago by biggie_smalls Hey all, I got interested in using smart pointers and tried to implement the following solution: [URL="…It's a non intrusive reference counted implementation of a smart ptr. And somewhere in the article the assignment operator is…work fine but assignment of a derived class smart ptr to a base class smart ptr seems to fail: [CODE] ObjVar&… Indestructible Pointers or Modifiable Const Containers. 12 Years Ago by triumphost … whether this is possible or not. Note: I also tried Smart Pointers with a custom deleter but then realize SmartPointers can also… Re: std::transform to delete smart pointers 17 Years Ago by sjcomp Thanks a lot, twomers. Your solution works! Re: Pointers, references and scope clarification 13 Years Ago by mike_2000_17 … worried about memory leaks, try making use of reference counted smart-pointers like `boost::shared_ptr` (or `std::tr1::shared_ptr`). Re: Pointers inside constructor 13 Years Ago by deceptikon … pointer it's safer to use one of C++'s smart pointers instead of pairing up new and delete. [code] // Pointer always… Re: Pointers inside constructor 13 Years Ago by mitrious … pointer it's safer to use one of C++'s smart pointers instead of pairing up new and delete. [code] // Pointer always… Re: Is it possible to work with out pointers and some OOP in C++? 14 Years Ago by mike_2000_17 …quot;raw" pointers. The use of smart pointers can make this job a lot easier. Raw pointers have a classic …the awkward semantics of raw pointers, and with that (and the automatic behaviour of smart pointers) you can avoid all…Note, how RAII is based on encapsulation and how smart pointers use abstraction, these concepts of OOP are not evil… Re: C++ 11, g++, and pointers 10 Years Ago by mike_2000_17 … And to answer your question, latest versions of GCC support smart-pointers, along with most C++11 features. There is a complete… added since C++11. So, according to that table, smart-pointers are supported in GCC since version 4.3, but I… miss out of the great mechanism (such as RAII and smart-pointers) in C++ that take much of that burden away.… Re: Use of pointers to hierarchical data structures in C++ 14 Years Ago by mike_2000_17 …value the use of certain techniques like RAII and Smart-Pointers as essential in any non-trivial programming task. With…to either not use pointers at all and store them by value, or use a smart pointer. To not store…Set& S) { segments.swap(S.segments); //swap the pointers only. return *this; }; boost::shared_ptr< vector<Segment… Re: pointer and smart pointer address 18 Years Ago by Ravalon [QUOTE]How do I get smart pointer from pointer address?[/QUOTE] You can't. Smart pointers are smart, but regular pointers are very dumb. They don… dumb pointer that points to the memory paired with the smart pointer. The memory is the same, so you can pass… Re: pointer and smart pointer address 18 Years Ago by Ancient Dragon None of the win32 api functions I'v used take smart pointers as a parameter or pass them back. Why? because they can all be called from other languages which know nothing at all about c++ smart pointers. Re: Linked List of Pointers 16 Years Ago by kux …]http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/05/04/smart-pointers.html?page=1[/url] try reading this... it's kind… also explains the RAII idiom and a large variety of smart pointers. If your STL version doesn't have std::tr1 you… Re: Linked List of Pointers 16 Years Ago by Kanvas …]http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/05/04/smart-pointers.html?page=1[/url] try reading this... it's kind… also explains the RAII idiom and a large variety of smart pointers. If your STL version doesn't have std::tr1 you… Re: Is it possible to work with out pointers and some OOP in C++? 14 Years Ago by mike_2000_17 … of polymorphism in OOP. Although they often use smart-pointers too (which you may or may not consider … .... the number of examples of real-life uses of pointers is uncountable. They are ubiquitous. They are only (almost…(APIs) which cannot pass objects or references, so pointers are thus necessary for proper Application Binary Interfacing (ABI)… Re: Use of pointers to hierarchical data structures in C++ 14 Years Ago by rubberman … BE A LOT EASIER! There are techniques, such as using smart pointers and reference counters to hold your Segments and such, so… you have to. In your classes, your member variables were pointers, and that isn't necessary. Since you have to allocate… them if you declare them as pointers, and then you have to destroy them also. Two … Re: Use of pointers to hierarchical data structures in C++ 14 Years Ago by rwarlord … agree that I had used many native pointers unnecessarily; references, store-by-values, and smart pointers can do better jobs. I had not…