Thread: RCPtr ?= shared_ptr

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    RCPtr ?= shared_ptr

    Hi everyone,

    I am to modify some third-party library code, and I've found the class "RCPtr".

    This seems to me a Reference Count Smart Pointer, said to be in Boost. However, I haven't found this in the Boost library.
    However, the shared_ptr is a reference count smart pointer as well?

    Has anyone seen this template before? Is it deprecated, or in another library which I don't know? Or is it just a general name? (i have found many rcPtr templates on the net).

    Thanks for your answer!

    Mark

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    shared_ptr is not the only reference counted smart pointer around. If the documentation says nothing about it, search the headers included until you find such a class defined.
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