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From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Want pointers on intelligent pointers
Message-ID: <71460@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 91 18:20:16 GMT
References: <838@antares.Concordia.CA> <1991Mar18.220013.18185@watson.ibm.com>
Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <1991Mar18.220013.18185@watson.ibm.com> mittle@ibm.com writes:
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|In article <838@antares.Concordia.CA>, marcap@antares.concordia.ca (
|MARC ANDREW PAWLOWSKY ) writes:
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|I think you're may be going about the reference count backward.  The
|reference count is controlled by the smart pointer, not the object.

These issues are well covered in Hansen's "The C++ Answer Book" --
if I remember right.