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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

Johan Jansson wrote:
> Anders Logg wrote:
> > We've been using const and shared_ptr differently in a few places. The
> > correct usage as far as I understand is
> >
> >   std::tr1::shared_ptr<const Foo> foo
> >
> > and not
> >
> >   const std::tr1::shared_ptr<Foo> foo
> >
> > The first (correct) usage corresponds to
> >
> >   const Foo& foo
> >
> > or
> >
> >   const Foo* foo
> >
> > that is, one cannot change the object pointed to.
> >
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> Hi!
>
> Just a question about TR1, is it really a good idea to use? It's not 
> part of the standard, and I guess then you're quite dependent on a 
> specific compiler, or?

The tr1 shared pointers come from Boost, which we already have as a 
dependency, so if we run into compiler issues with std::tr1::shared_ptr 
we can just shift to boost::shared_ptr.

Garth


>   Joha
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