Question

Are there boost make_shared_array and make_scope_ptr or only make_shared?

Answer 1

boost::make_scoped_ptr wouldn’t work, since you can’t transfer ownership from a scoped_ptr. At least, not without an explicit call to swap.

And with Boost 1.53, there’s not much reason to use shared_array, since you can just use shared_ptr with an array type. So just use boost::make_shared.