Thread: boost::shared_ptr and dynamic binding

It seems I cannot get rid of this. I'm probably starting to look suspiciously annoying. Hope I'm not. Tell me when to stop.

I want to have my allocated memory managed. Period. And in this quest I've been bouncing on walls.

My latest, and hopefully last one has to to with boost::shared_ptr apparently not supporting dynamic binding. I need your help figuring out if this is indeed the case:

Code:

class CItem {
public:
    typedef boost::shared_ptr<CItem> CItem_Ptr;

    virtual CItem& add(CItem_Ptr);
}

class CContainer : public CItem {
public:
    virtual CContainer add(CItem_Ptr);

}

class CWeapon : public CItem { /* ... * / }

int main() {
    
    CItem_Ptr weapon(new CWeapon)
    CItem_Ptr obj(new CContainer);

    obj->add(weapon)   // This calls CItem::add. Not CContainer::add
}

I'm getting so frustrated. Why isn't dynamic binding working? Is it because shared_ptr doesn't support it?

Forget it... found what the problem was.

I think I need a good night sleep

EDIT: It was a stupid mistake in which I had the base defining the function as const and the derived not. Embarrassing.