Question

Currently I am solving my problem with boost::shared_ptr but the semantics is not quite right, since I am “transplanting” members from one object to another. I was looking through this list but it didn’t yield too much. Same goes for my brief google searches.

Essentially I am looking for a unique_ptr implementation that works with my gcc4.2 (Hence the restriction to not use C++11)

Answer 1

You could stick with std::auto_ptr until Boost implements unique_ptr on top of the new Boost Move library (C++03 compatible).

See this mailing list traffic d.d. November 10th 2011: http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/smart-ptr-Inclusion-of-unique-ptr-td4021667.html

Edit And Boost Interprocess has a uniqe_ptr<> class template floating around:

• http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_48_0/doc/html/boost/interprocess/unique_ptr.html