Question

I have a code:

namespace My
{
    #define sptr std::shared_ptr;
}

It was used in a lot of places. Now I’ve included this code as library into qt project and it failed to load because somewhere it uses sptr as variable name.

I can modify Qt header and rename variable but this isn’t good in portability side. What is the best way to solve this problem? typedef can’t be used with templates. I know hack with templated structure but I still have to modify my code with it.

Answer 1

namespace ns {
  template<typename T>
  using sptr = std::shared_ptr<T>;
}

See also @Kerrek SB’s comment to the question regarding this specific use-case.