Ben Hutchings Wrote:

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I realise my requirements may be rather specific, but it seems shared_ptr has picked up some typeid baggage, which I can't afford. Whyever not?

Sorry - I wasn't playing the image size limitation game - it's just I'd rather class names were not revealed to the average image browser. Peter Dimov Wrote:

This problem should be fixed in the latest CVS version of boost::shared_ptr. If you can try it and report back, it would be much appreciated.

Will do. Thanks for the info Peter. Mark