[C++-sig] differencein memory management

[David Abrahams]

on Wed Jul 16 2008, Gennadiy Rozental <rogeeff-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> I plan to reply to your other post, but before I do that can't you explain to me
> difference in memory/ownership/lifecycle management in between following export
> statements:
>
> class_<A,shared_ptr<A>,...
> class_<A,intrusive_ptr<A>,...
> class_<A,A*,...

The first two are identical.  The third one leaks a C++ A when the
corresponding Python A loses its last reference.

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