[Boost-users] Re: Using shared_ptr across shared library boundary

"Edward Diener" writes:

Is there any problem with using shared_ptr and passing an instance of it to a function in another shared library, such as a DLL under Windows ?

Works beautifully, even if the two DLLs are using different heaps.

Does the reference count get updated correctly when the copy is passed to a DLL function, so that when the last shared_ptr in either the original module or the DLL goers out of scope, the actual pointer is correctly deleted ?

Yep. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com