C++ is all about memory ownership Aka "Ownership Semantics" It is the responsibility of the owner of a chunk of dynamically allocated memory to release that memory. So the question really becomes who owns the memory. In C++ ownership is documented by the type a RAW pointer is wrapped inside thus in a good (IMO) C++ program it is very r...
I'd like the destructor of my class to delete the entire object except for one of the members, which is deleted elsewhere. First of all, is this totally unreasonable? Assuming it's not, how do I do this? I thought that created an destructor with an empty body would prevent all the members from being deleted (because the destructor wou...
Hi, There is a scenario that i need to solve with shared_ptr and weak_ptr smart pointers. Two threads, thread 1 & 2, are using a shared object called A. Each of the threads have a reference to that object. thread 1 decides to delete object A but at the same time thread 2 might be using it. If i used shared_ptr to hold object A's refere...