Thread: Problem with pointers

Hello everybody, sorry for my bad english.


This is the problem I have. I have an class hierarchy like java's with an object base class named Object.
There is also a class named Reference that contains a pointer to a Object. It is like

Code:

class Reference{
    public:
        Object *value;
        ....
};

Two or more references can point to the same object but how can I make that when a Reference that shares
the object wiht some other reference changes the value of the object, it can be viewed by all the other
references?
I've tried somethig like:

Code:

Reference *a = new reference();
Reference *b = new reference();
a->value = some object
b->value = a->value;    // a and b point to the same object, the have the same address
// some change to a's value
object *o = some object
*(a->value) = *o; // both a and b values remains unchanged

What I want to do is some kind of aliasing simulation, but without using the one provided by C++.

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