Countable Class Reference

Common base class used by the reference counting pointer implementation (GCPtr). More...

#include <GCPtr.hxx>

Inheritance diagram for Countable:

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Public Member Functions
	Countable ()
	Constructor for a countable object.
	Countable (const Countable &)
virtual	~Countable ()
Countable &	operator= (const Countable &)

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Detailed Description

Common base class used by the reference counting pointer implementation (GCPtr).

It may seem surprising that the IncrementRefCount() and DecrementRefCount() methods are implemented here. This is because of a bug in g++ wherein it is impossible for Counter to declare:

///   template<class T> friend class GCPtr;
/// 

Definition at line 71 of file GCPtr.hxx.

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Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Countable::Countable (   )  [inline]

Constructor for a countable object. This is mildly tricky. The problem is that for statically allocated objects we need to arrange for the reference count to be incremented by 1 extra to guarantee that the expiration of any GcPtr that points to it does not cause an attempt to deallocate a statically declared object. The following test assumes that the stack grows downwards. Definition at line 84 of file GCPtr.hxx.

Countable::Countable (  const Countable &   )  [inline]

Definition at line 89 of file GCPtr.hxx.

Countable::~Countable (   )  [virtual]

Definition at line 43 of file GCPtr.cxx.

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Member Function Documentation

Countable& Countable::operator= (  const Countable &   )  [inline]

Definition at line 95 of file GCPtr.hxx.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• GCPtr.hxx
• GCPtr.cxx

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