shared_ptr.hh

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// $Id: smartpointer.hh 5504 2009-04-08 13:35:31Z christi $

#ifndef DUNE_SHARED_PTR_HH
#define DUNE_SHARED_PTR_HH

#include <memory>

#include <dune/common/nullptr.hh>
#include <dune/common/typetraits.hh>
/**
 * @file
 * @brief This file implements the class shared_ptr (a reference counting
 * pointer), for those systems that don't have it in the standard library.
 * @author Markus Blatt
 */
namespace Dune
{
  // pull in default implementations
  using std::shared_ptr;
  using std::make_shared;

  /**
     @brief implements the Deleter concept of shared_ptr without deleting anything
     @relates shared_ptr

     If you allocate an object on the stack, but want to pass it to a class or function as a shared_ptr,
     you can use this deleter to avoid accidental deletion of the stack-allocated object.

     For convenience we provide two free functions to create a shared_ptr from a stack-allocated object
     (\see stackobject_to_shared_ptr):

     1) Convert a stack-allocated object to a shared_ptr:
     @code
          int i = 10;
          shared_ptr<int> pi = stackobject_to_shared_ptr(i);
     @endcode
     2) Convert a stack-allocated object to a shared_ptr of a base class
     @code
          class A {};
          class B : public A {};

          ...

          B b;
          shared_ptr<A> pa = stackobject_to_shared_ptr<A>(b);
     @endcode

     @tparam T type of the stack-allocated object
   */
  template<class T>
  struct null_deleter
  {
    void operator() (T*) const {}
  };

  /**
     @brief Convert a stack-allocated object to a shared_ptr:
     @code
          int i = 10;
          shared_ptr<int> pi = stackobject_to_shared_ptr(i);
     @endcode
   */
  template<typename T>
  inline shared_ptr<T> stackobject_to_shared_ptr(T & t)
  {
    return shared_ptr<T>(&t, null_deleter<T>());
  }

  /**
     @brief Convert a stack object to a shared_ptr of a base class
     @code
          class A {};
          class B : public A {};

          ...

          B b;
          shared_ptr<A> pa = stackobject_to_shared_ptr<A>(b);
     @endcode
   */
  template<typename T, typename T2>
  inline shared_ptr<T2> stackobject_to_shared_ptr(T & t)
  {
    return shared_ptr<T2>(dynamic_cast<T2*>(&t), null_deleter<T2>());
  }

}
#endif