[C++-sig] V2: corner case bug?

Peter Bienstman pbienst at MIT.EDU
Wed Apr 3 01:02:50 CEST 2002


OK, this odd combination of abstract base classes, referencing existing
objects and adding new functions to a class does not compile.

Wrapping the 'inside' functions goes fine, wrapping the similar
'outside' functions doesn't compile because the compiler wants to
instantiate the abstract class, although it's marked noncopyable. 

#define BOOST_PYTHON_DYNAMIC_LIB
#define BOOST_PYTHON_V2

#include <boost/python/module.hpp>
#include <boost/python/class.hpp>
#include <boost/python/reference_existing_object.hpp>
#include <boost/python/return_value_policy.hpp>

struct A {};

struct V 
{

 virtual void f() = 0;

 const A* inside() {return &a;}

 A a;
};

const A* outside(const V& v) {return &v.a;}

BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE_INIT(m)
{
  using namespace boost::python;
  using boost::shared_ptr;
  using boost::python::return_value_policy;
  using boost::python::reference_existing_object;

  module m("m");
  
  m
    .add(class_<A, shared_ptr<A> >("A"))

    .add(
      class_<V, boost::noncopyable>("V")
      .def("inside", &V::inside, 
           return_value_policy<reference_existing_object>())
      .def("outside", outside, 
           return_value_policy<reference_existing_object>())
      )
    ;
}







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